Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists
Sep 1996 · Springer
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Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and systems of belief.
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DONALD E. HALL is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches Victorian literature, feminist theory, and queer studies. He is the author of Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, and co-editor of RePresenting Bisexualities.
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