02069cam a2200253 a 4500008004100000020001500041020001800056020001500074020001800089040000800107050002400115100002000139245009300159260005200252300001900304505036200323505001700685520095800702650002901660650003701689650003201726650003201758650002501790060616s2007    njua     b    001 0 eng    a0691128200  a9780691128207  a0691128359  a9780691128351  aSDU00aHQ1599bM313 B 20071 aMarcus, Sharon,10aBetween women :bfriendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England /cSharon Marcus.  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,c2007.  a356 p. :bill.0 aThe female relations of Victorian England -- Friendship and the play of the system -- Just reading: female friendship and the marriage plot -- Dressing up and dressing down the feminine plaything -- The female accessory in Great expectations -- The genealogy of marriage -- Contracting female marriage in Can you forgive her? -- Woolf, Wilde and girl dates.0 aHKBU library  aWomen in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.--From publisher description. 0aWomenzEnglandxHistory. 0aWomenxSocial networkszEngland. 0aLesbianszEnglandxHistory. 0aFemale friendshipzEngland. 0aWomen in literature.