{"product_id":"fixing-patriarchy-feminism-and-mid-victorian-male-novelists-paperback","title":"Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald E. Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoan Helmich\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history. In Fixing Patriarchy, Donald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political and psychological threats to patriarchy. Hall explores the metamorphic nature of Victorian definitions of masculinity and femininity through an analysis of male authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Kingsley, Thackeray, Hughes, Collins, and Trollope in dialogue with Victorian feminists and other women writers.Synthesizing historical research with pertinent queer, feminist, post-structuralist, and materialist theories, Hall locates both startling admissions of moral fallibility and violent strategies of retrenchment and containment of this perceived threat to the male social body. Fixing Patriarchytraces parallels among Victorian discourses of religion, science, economics, and aesthetics, as it explores a cultural dynamic of un-fixedness and heightened desires for fixity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political, and psychological threats to patriarchy, the fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender roles and their own positions of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.3 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450266960050,"sku":"9780814735374","price":66.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/796d6b720d1ad417e96d50e79a9604be.webp?v=1778783428","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/fixing-patriarchy-feminism-and-mid-victorian-male-novelists-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}