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This work covers feminist art history. It tells how the depiction of women in art defined and confined their role in Victorian Britain. It offers an analysis of the regulation of women's behaviour in the 19th century. Victorian notions of acceptable and unacceptable female behaviour pervade 19th-century culture and reveal themselves in this book in the popular art of the time. The author shows how paintings intended for public exhibitions in particular participated in the production of a distinctive bourgeois morality. She shows too how women were represented in medical, legal, religious and literary texts, focusing especially on the treatment of prostitution, adultery and female philanthropy. Her aim is to provide both an exploration of a complex and powerful process and a readable account of the framing of Victorian sexuality.
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- Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists by Deborah Cherry on 5 pages
- Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City by Deborah Epstein Nord on 4 pages
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- Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity Series) by Reina Lewis on page 83, page 125, and Back Matter
- The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s by Liz Conor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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