Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832-1898

In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as common sense and laws of nature. 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 cult