Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword viii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. CHAPTER ONE. The Ideological Work of Gender 1
6. CHAPTER TWO. Scenes of an Indelicate Character: The Medical Treatment of Victorian Women 24
7. CHAPTER THREE. Covered but Not Bound: Caroline Norton and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act 51
8. CHAPTER FOUR. The Man-of-Letters Hero David Copperfield and the Professional Writer 89
9. CHAPTER FIVE. The Anathematized Race: The Governess and Jane Eyre 126
10. CHAPTER SIX. A Housewifely Woman: The Social Construction of Florence Nightingale 164
11. Conclusion 199
12. Notes 203
13. Bibliography 247
14. Index 275