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Aestheticism
Alienist
Allan Bloom
American middle class
Anti-psychiatry
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Black Skin
Buck v. Bell
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Cathy
Charivari
Colonialism
Cultural hegemony
D. H. Lawrence
Deviance (sociology)
Discipline and Punish
Disease
E. P. Thompson
Edward Carpenter
Edward Said
Endogamy
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Eugenics
Feminism (international relations)
Fredric Jameson
Grotesque body
Havelock Ellis
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Henry Mayhew
Household
Human female sexuality
Incest
Jargon
Kinship
Libido
London Labour and the London Poor
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Middle class
Modesty
Moral economy
Moral treatment
Morality
Mr.
Narrative
New class
Of Education
Oppression
Orientalism
Patriarchy
Polyandry
Postmodernism
Primal scene
Principles (retailer)
Promiscuity
Prostitution
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Psychopathia Sexualis (Heinrich Kaan)
Racism
Sexology
Sexual desire
Sexual Desire (book)
Slavery
Sociology
Superiority (short story)
Symptom
Tattoo
The Closing of the American Mind
The History of Sexuality
The Political Unconscious
Thomas Willis
White Masks
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691608518
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as "common sense" and "laws of nature." Joining an emergent tradition of cultural historians who draw on Gramsci and Foucault, she shows how middle-class hegemony in the nineteenth century depended on notions of gender to legitimize a culture-specific and class-specific definition of the right and wrong ways of being human. The author examines not only domestic fiction, particularly Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights, but also nineteenth-century works of the human sciences, including sociological tracts, anthropological treatises, medical texts, and psychological studies. She finds that British intellectuals of the period produced gendered standards of behavior that did not so much subordinate women to men as they authorized the social class whose women met norms of "appropriate" behavior: this class was considered to be peculiarly fit to care for other social and cultural groups whose women were "improperly" gendered.
When Levy reads fiction against the social sciences, she demonstrates that the history of fiction cannot be understood apart from the history of the human sciences. Both fiction and science share common narrative strategies for representing the "essential" female and "other women"--the prostitute, the "primitive," and the madwoman. Only fiction, however, represented these strategies in an idiom of everyday life that verified "theory" and "science." Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
