TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marcus,Sharon
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England 
AV  - HQ1599.E5 M37 2007eb
U1  - 306.84/8094209034 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-346) and index; The 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - Women 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
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