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040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aHQ1599 _bM313 B 2007
100	1		_aMarcus, Sharon, _9184919
245	1	0	_aBetween women : _bfriendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / _cSharon Marcus.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2007.
300			_a356 p. : _bill.
505	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.
505	0		_aHKBU library
520			_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.
650		0	_aWomen _zEngland _xHistory. _9184920
650		0	_aWomen _xSocial networks _zEngland. _9184921
650		0	_aLesbians _zEngland _xHistory. _9184922
650		0	_aFemale friendship _zEngland. _9184923
650		0	_aWomen in literature.
900			_a= C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
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