Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of...
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Author: Sharon Marcus
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Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Marcus, Sharon

Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

Dhs. 188.65

Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

Dhs. 188.65
Author: Sharon Marcus
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.

Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

Author: Sharon Marcus
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 01/22/2007
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.06w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780691128351


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/06/2006 pg. 46
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 148

About the Author
Sharon Marcus is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London.

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