Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/of0B2rV What is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890 By: Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Print ISBN: 9783039111169, 3039111167 eText ISBN: 9783035300628, 3035300623 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 89.95 USD SKU 9783035300628 This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions for women, their engagement with new forms of work and their changing relationship to the public sphere. The wealth of material gathered here – from autobiographies, conduct manuals, diaries, periodical articles, prefaces and travelogues – traces the extensive debate on women’s art, feminism and economics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Combining for the first time nineteenth-century criticism on literature and the visual arts, performance and craftsmanship, the selected material reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from idleness to serious occupation. The distinctive primary sources explore the impact of artistic labour upon perceptions of feminine sensibility and aesthetics, the conflicting views of women towards the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they encompassed vocations, trades and professions, and the complex relationship between paid labour and female fame and notoriety.
