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PRE-ORDER NOW Gendered Environmental Inequality in Victorian Literature by Adrian Tait
PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 10/12/2026
This book aims to re-evaluate the Victorian literary response to forms of environmental injustice directly linked to the gendered identity of women. As ground-breaking feminist writers such as Elaine Showalter argued in the 1970s, the experience of many Victorian women was dominated by an ideology that constructed them as inferior members of society, even as it valorised them as `Angels'. Heteronormative and patriarchal, this domestic ideology dictated the `natural' roles of women as wives and mothers, and ascribed the home and hearth to them as their `natural' environment; it decided the uses to which they could put their bodies, and the spaces they could occupy. As such, and as the author argue in this book, this ideological construct constituted a form of gendered environmental inequality, a structural, spatial, and bodily injustice that affected women of all classes.Binding: Hardback
PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 10/12/2026
This book aims to re-evaluate the Victorian literary response to forms of environmental injustice directly linked to the gendered identity of women. As ground-breaking feminist writers such as Elaine Showalter argued in the 1970s, the experience of many Victorian women was dominated by an ideology that constructed them as inferior members of society, even as it valorised them as `Angels'. Heteronormative and patriarchal, this domestic ideology dictated the `natural' roles of women as wives and mothers, and ascribed the home and hearth to them as their `natural' environment; it decided the uses to which they could put their bodies, and the spaces they could occupy. As such, and as the author argue in this book, this ideological construct constituted a form of gendered environmental inequality, a structural, spatial, and bodily injustice that affected women of all classes.Binding: Hardback
$122.47
PRE-ORDER NOW Gendered Environmental Inequality in Victorian Literature by Adrian Tait—
$122.47
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PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 10/12/2026
This book aims to re-evaluate the Victorian literary response to forms of environmental injustice directly linked to the gendered identity of women. As ground-breaking feminist writers such as Elaine Showalter argued in the 1970s, the experience of many Victorian women was dominated by an ideology that constructed them as inferior members of society, even as it valorised them as `Angels'. Heteronormative and patriarchal, this domestic ideology dictated the `natural' roles of women as wives and mothers, and ascribed the home and hearth to them as their `natural' environment; it decided the uses to which they could put their bodies, and the spaces they could occupy. As such, and as the author argue in this book, this ideological construct constituted a form of gendered environmental inequality, a structural, spatial, and bodily injustice that affected women of all classes.Binding: Hardback
