Gender Matters (sitemap) (original) (raw)

Theories of Gender

• Attitudes toward sexuality and sexual identity
• Images of women
• The Female Body in the Nineteenth Century — Primary & Secondary Materials
• Feminity and femaleness in E. B. Browning and Dickens
• Issues of Victorian Masculinity
• The Struggle for Manhood in Victorian Fiction: Introduction

Political and social history

• Political History
• The Battle for Women's Suffrage — a Timeline
• Social History
• Women's social and economic status: class and occupation
• Eneas Dallas on Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc's Essays on Women's Work
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
• The Birth Control Movement
• Bigamy
• Prostitution
• The Contagious Diseases Act
• Divorce in the Victorian Period
• Octavia Hill — Housing and Social Reformer, and Environmental Campaigner
• Review of The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture (largely focused on women's roles and women authors)
• Emily Faithfull, Pioneering Publisher, Journalist and Women's Activist
• Arthur Munby, Cross-Dressing and Lesbianism
• A Review of Rodney Bolt's As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
• An Unequal MarriageI Edward White Benson and Mary Sidgwick Benson
• "My God, What a Woman!"; Glimpses of Mary Benson
• Punch, the London Charivari on Gender Matters

Travelling and exploring

• Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop)
• Mary Kingsley
• Juliana Hervey
• Marianne North

Religion

• Sitemap
• Women's Religious Orders in Victorian England
• Deaconess Isabella Gilmore

Literature and the arts

• Women authors
• Women and literature
• The New Woman Fiction
• The literary Canon
• Women and Reading in Victorian England
• Visual Arts
• The Woman in the Frame: Victorian Painting, Ekphrastic Poetry, and the Female Gaze
• Becoming Heroines: Protest and Paradigm in Victorian Fiction (6-part essay)
• Rebecca Solomon as a Social Activist
• Rebecca Solomon and Women: A Feminist Reading
• [Dickens's] Kate Nickleby and the #MeToo Movement
• Anne Lister ("Gentleman Jack") and the Brontës

Science and technology

• Women and Science
• Victorian Theories of Biology and Gender: A Bibliography
• Nineteenth-century science
• Technology

Resources

• Works about Victorian Women, Double Standards, Public/Private Spheres, Gender, & Sexuality
• Specialized Bibliographies
• Reviews of books on Gender Matters
• Related Resources

Created 27 September 2021