Ruskin and Gender

Birch, Dinah; O'Gorman, Francis

For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-05-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333968970

DOI: 10.1057/9780230522480

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 211