02945nam a2200433 a 4500 ebr10320502 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 060616s2007 njua sb 001 0 eng 2006020026 GBA685804 bnb 013572851 Uk 0691128200 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780691128207 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691128359 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780691128351 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)437268351 e-uk-en HQ1599.E5 M37 2007eb 306.84/8094209034 22 Marcus, Sharon, 1966- Between women [electronic resource] : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon Marcus. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007. x, 356 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-346) and index. The female relations of Victorian England -- Friendship and the play of the system -- Just reading: female friendship and the marriage plot -- Dressing up and dressing down the feminine plaything -- The female accessory in Great expectations -- The genealogy of marriage -- Contracting female marriage in Can you forgive her? -- Woolf, Wilde and girl dates. Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.--From publisher description. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Women England History. Women Social networks England. Lesbians England History. Female friendship England. Women in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10320502 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 60890 60890