Difficult subjects : working women and visual culture, Britain 1880-1914 / Kristina Huneault.
Difficult subjects : working women and visual culture, Britain 1880-1914 / Kristina Huneault.
Difficult subjects : working women and visual culture, Britain 1880-1914 / Kristina Huneault.
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Publisher
Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2002.
Date
2002.
Call Numbers
N704.9424/8
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xiv, 255 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. My servant/my self: domestic servants and visual culture -- 3. Flower-girls and fictions: selling on the streets -- 4. Imag(in)ing industry: order and beauty on the factory floor -- 5. L̀iving tableaux of misery and oppression': visualizing sweated labour -- 6. Working women an...
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Publisher
Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2002.
Place of Publication
Vermont
Date Published
2002.
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Summary
"The working women of Victorian Edwardian Britain were fascinating but difficult subjects for artists, photographers, and illustrators. The cultural meanings of labour sat uncomfortably with conventional ideologies of femininity, and working women unsettled the boundaries between gender and class, selfhood and otherness. From paintings of servants...
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Difficult subjects : working women and visual culture, Britain 1880-1914 / Kristina Huneault.
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British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N704.9424/8
Record Identifier
74VvlVRlrlrO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvlVRlrlrO
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ISBN
0754604098 (alk. paper)
9780754604099 (alk. paper)
DDC
704.942409034
MMS ID
991017389529702626
