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Difficult Subjects: Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain, 1880-1914 (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings)
by Kristina Huneault (Author),
Ashgate Publishing (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
BOOK SUMMARY OF DIFFICULT SUBJECTS
The working women of Victorian and 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 in middle-class households, to
exhibits of flower-makers on display for a shilling, the visual culture of
women's labour offered a complex web if interior fantasy and exterior reality.
The picture would become more challenging still when working women themselves
began to use visual spectacle. In this first in-depth exploration of the
representation of British working
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780754604099
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Ashgate Publishing
Publishing Date 2002-12-23