Description: Introduction: The Perfect Victorian Lady Martha Vicinus 1: The Victorian Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society M. Jeanne Peterson 2: From Dame to Woman: W.S. Gilbert and Theatrical Transvestism Jane W. Stedman 3: Victorian Women and Menstruation Elaine and English Showalter 4: Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter's View of Women in the First Twenty-Five Years of Victoria's Reign Helene E. Roberts 5: A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease E.M. Sigsworth and T.J. Wyke 6: Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914 Peter N. Stearns 7: The Debate over Women: Ruskin vs. Mill Kate Millett 8: Sterotypes of Femininity in a Theory of Sexual Evolution Jill Conway 9: Innocent Femina Sensualis in Unconscious Conflict Peter T. Cominos 10: The Women of England in a Century of Social Change, 1815-1914: A Select Bibliography S. Barbara Kanner Notes Index

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