Title Daily life of Victorian women / Lydia Murdoch.

Publication Info.

Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, [2014]

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	305.40941 M974D	Check Shelf

Description	xxix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series	The Greenwood Press daily life through history series
	Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	Introduction: Victorian contexts and ideals of womanhood -- Women and the state -- Religion, spiritualism and death -- Family, home, and leisure -- Health and sexuality -- Childbearing, youth, and education -- Wage labor and professional work -- Urban life -- Women and empire.
Subject	Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
	Women's rights -- Great Britain.
	Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	HISTORY / Europe / General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
	Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
	Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780313384981 (hardback)
	0313384983 (hardback)

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