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Hidden hands : working-class women and Victorian social-problem fiction
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Hidden hands : working-class women and Victorian social-problem fiction

Author: Patricia E Johnson
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2001.
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"Tracing the Victorian literary crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 parliamentary blue book on mines and its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because the worker exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Johnson, Patricia E., 1951-
Hidden hands.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2001
(OCoLC)606559061
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Patricia E Johnson
ISBN: 0821413880 9780821413883 0821413899 9780821413890
OCLC Number: 45668857
Description: ix, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Industrial Fictions --
The Death of the Factory Girl --
Naming the Unnameable: Sexual Harassment and Working-Class Women in Novels of Industry --
Women, Class, and Politics --
Two Nations: Women and Politics in Sybil --
Hidden Connections/Missing Links: Luddism and Feminism in Shirley --
Class Relations --
Domesticating Violence: Hard Times for Working-Class Women.
Responsibility: Patricia E. Johnson.

Abstract:

"Tracing the Victorian literary crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 parliamentary blue book on mines and its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because the worker exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities."--BOOK JACKET.

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