Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal
Other Mothers , edited by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver, offers a range of essays that open a conversation about Victorian motherhood as a wide-ranging, distinctive experience and idea. In spite of its importance, however, it is one of the least-studied aspects of the Victorian era, sub...
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Zusammenfassung: | Other Mothers , edited by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia
C. Klaver, offers a range of essays that open a conversation about
Victorian motherhood as a wide-ranging, distinctive experience and
idea. In spite of its importance, however, it is one of the
least-studied aspects of the Victorian era, subsumed under
discussions of femininity and domesticity. This collection
addresses this void, revealing the extraordinary diversity of
Victorian motherhood. Exploring diaries, novels, and court cases,
with contexts ranging from London to Egypt to Australia, these
varied accounts take the collection "beyond the maternal ideal" to
consider the multiple, unpredictable ways in which motherhood was
experienced and imagined in this formative historical period.
Other Mothers joins revisionist approaches to femininity
that now characterize Victorian studies. Its contents trace
intersections among gender, race, and class; question the power of
separate spheres ideology; and insist on the context-specific
nature of social roles. The fifteen essays in this volume
contribute to the fields of literary criticism, history, cultural
studies, and history. |
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DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv16rdd3p |