Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England Marcus SharonPaperback
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England Marcus SharonPaperback Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of…
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Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England Marcus SharonPaperback
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. 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. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment.
Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. 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
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