Giving women: alliance and exchange in victorian culture
Auteur :
Rappoport, Jill
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780199364947
Date de publication :
9 janv. 2014
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
417 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In literature and social activism, Victorian women used gift exchanges to establish kinship and political alliances. In Giving Women, Jill Rappoport argues that through intimate gifts, they achieved both personal and public agency, mobilizing networks outside of marriage and the market to advance legal, scientific, and religious reforms.