· With this interdisciplinary study, Sharon Marcus makes a major contribution to our understanding of how gender and sexuality functioned in nineteenth-century England. Marcus argues that, in order to be able to perceive and understand the variety of relationships between women in the past, as well as the role that such relationships played in both perpetuating and transforming Author: Victoria E. Thompson. This book is an absolutely brilliant, lucid, beautifully written, engrossing exploration of the relationships between women in Victorian England. Marcus' arguments are fresh and deeply surprising -- revolutionary, really -- yet somehow manage to feel utterly inevitable after the fact/5(17). · Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of the award-winning Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton) and Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London.4/5.
Love and Marriage. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. By Sharon Marcus Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, , pp., $, paperback Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz. I'm a blurb skeptic. Fully aware of the back-slapping, reciprocity-demanding networks of literature and academia, I cringe at. 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. Buy Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Marcus, Sharon (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon Marcus Author: Marcus, Sharon, Resource Type: E-Book Language: English Imprint: Princeton: Princeton University Press, Connect to: Electronic book, click to view Description. With this interdisciplinary study, Sharon Marcus makes a major contribution to our understanding of how gender and sexuality functioned in nineteenth-century England. Marcus argues that, in order to be able to perceive and understand the variety of relationships between women in the past, as well as the role that such relationships played in both perpetuating and transforming definitions of femininity, scholars must rethink the nature of same-sex relationships. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Sharon Marcus. Overview. Author (s) Praise 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.
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