Giving Women: Alliance And Exchange In Victorian Culture

In literature and social activism, Victorian women used gift exchanges to establish kinship and political alliances. In Giving Women, Jill Rappoport argues that through intimate gifts, they achieved both personal and public agency, mobilizing networks outside of marriage and the market to advance legal, scientific, and religious reforms.

• | Author: Jill Rappoport
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 019936494X
• | ISBN-13: 9780199364947