Ruskin and Gender |
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| Author:
| Birch, Dinah
O'Gorman, Francis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-230-52248-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2002 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | AUD $128.95 |
Book Description:
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For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.
For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.