Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
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This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history.
Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning.
Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195040392
ISBN13:9780195040395
Release Date:May 1986
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"
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A readable, valuable, US history
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I found this book to be full of surprises. I now know that it is possible for a thorough, well researched history book to still be very readable. I quickly discarded my fear that a feminist history might be lacking in rigour or respectibility. As a Gilbert & Sullivan enthusiast I am pleased to see bad steroetypes of the victorian era trounced. When I read the discussion of the origins of the AMA, and saw how this relates to its behavior today, I decided this small section alone made the book worth having.
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