The Flesh Made Word : Female Figures and Women's Bodies.
Title:
The Flesh Made Word : Female Figures and Women's Bodies.
Author:
Michie, Helena.
ISBN:
9780198021155
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (190 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Introduction: Constructing the Frame -- CHAPTER I: Ladylike Anorexia: Hunger, Sexuality, and Etiquette -- CHAPTER II: Becoming Public Women: Women and Work -- CHAPTER III: Calling and Falling: Vocation and Prostitution -- CHAPTER IV: Body, Figure, Embodiment: The Paradoxes of Heroine Description -- CHAPTER V: Re-membering the Body: Feminist Theory and Representation -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This provocative work examines how women's bodies are portrayed in a variety of Victorian literary and non-literary genres--from paintings, poems, and novels, to etiquette books, sex manuals, and pornography--and offers fresh readings of the Bront?s, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and many others.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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