Hidden Hands

Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction

By: Patricia E. Johnson

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Hardcover | 15 September 2001

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A revealing look at the representations of women in Victorian fiction Tracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became even more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because it exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities. Drawing on the recent work of feminist historians, Patricia Johnson lays the groundwork for a rein terpretation of Victorian social-problem fiction that highlights its treatment of issues that particularly affected working-class women: sexual harassment; the interconnections between domestic ideology and domestic violence; their relationships to male-dominated working-class movements such as Luddism, Chartism, and unionism; and their troubled connection to middle-class feminism. Uncovering a series of images in Victorian fiction, ranging from hot-tempered servants and sexually-harassed factory girls to working-class homemakers pictured as beaten dogs, Hidden Hands demonstrates that representations of working-class women, however marginalized or incoherent, reveal the very contradictions they are constructed to hide and that the dynamics of these representations have broad implications both for other groups, such as middle-class women, and for the emergence of working-class women as writers themselves.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Social Classes Literary Studies of Fiction

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Industrial Fictions
The Death of the Factory Girl	p. 19
Naming the Unnameable: Sexual Harassment and Working-Class Women in Novels of Industry	p. 45
Women, Class, and Politics
Two Nations: Women and Politics in Sybil	p. 73
Hidden Connections/Missing Links: Luddism and Feminism in Shirley	p. 101
Class Relations
Domesticating Violence: Hard Times for Working-Class Women	p. 133
Epilogue	p. 166
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 219
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