Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760

by Ingrid H. Tague

Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, 'Women of Quality' examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years following the Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded to a perceived crisis of gender relations by creating a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior in opposition to the luxury and decadence of fashionable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851159079
• ISBN13: 9780851159072
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.1"