EAN: 9783039111169

WHAT IS A WOMAN TO DO? KARTONIERT (TB)

This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of
female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question
in a number of areas  including the status and suitability of artistic professions for women 
their engagement with new forms of work and their changing relationship to the public sphere.
The wealth of material gathered here - from autobiographies  conduct manuals  diaries 
periodical articles  prefaces and travelogues - traces the extensive debate on women's art 
feminism and economics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Combining for the first time
nineteenth-century criticism on literature and the visual arts  performance and craftsmanship 
the selected material reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of
women from idleness to serious occupation. The distinctive primary sources explore the impact
of artistic labour upon perceptions of feminine sensibility and aesthetics  the conflicting
views of women towards the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they encompassed
vocations  trades and professions  and the complex relationship between paid labour and female
fame and notoriety.

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