Other Women

In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as "e;common sense"e; and "e;laws of nature."e; Joining an emergent tradition of cultural historians who draw on Gramsci and Foucault, she shows how middle-class hegemony in the nineteenth century depended on notions of gender to legitimize a culture-specific and class-specific definition...