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Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Female Relations of Victorian England 1
Overview 2
Historical and Disciplinary Borders 5
How This Book Engages Scholarly Debates 9
How I Came to Write This Book 14
Conclusion 21
Elastic Ideals: Female Friendship 23
Friendship and the Play of the System 25
Female Friendship in Feminist Studies 29
Victorian Women's Lifewriting and Relationships between Women 32
Female Friendship as Gender Norm 38
Friends and "Friends" 43
The Repertory of Friendship 54
"Purified and Made One in Jesus" 62
Friendship, Kinship, Marriage 66
Just Reading: Female Friendship and the Marriage Plot 73
The Form of the Plot 82
Female Amity and the Companionate Marriage Plot 85
Female Amity and the Feminist Marriage Plot 91
The Double Marriage Plot: Friendship as Cause and Effect 96
Unamiable Villette: Lucy Snowe's Passion 102
Mobile Objects: Female Desire 109
Dressing Up and Dressing Down the FemininePlaything 111
Fashion and Fantasies of Women 116
Discipline and Punishment in the Fashion Magazine 135
Live Dolls 149
The Female Accessory in Great Expectations 167
The Female Dyad and the Origins of Desire 173
Masculinity as Castoff 177
Pip as Doll and Fashion Plate 180
The Sentimental Education of the Female Dyad 184
Plastic Institutions: Female Marriage 191
The Genealogy of Marriage 193
Female Marriage in the Nineteenth Century 196
Female Marriage and Victorian Marriage Reform 204
The Debate over Contractual Marriage 212
Victorian Anthropology and the History of Marriage 217
Same-Sex Unions and the History of Civilization 222
Contracting Female Marriage in Can You forgive Her? 227
Trollope, Feminism, and Female Marriage 228
Female Marriage and Contractual Marriage in Can You Forgive Her? 232
Marriage as Forgiveness: Primitive Contract and Modern Punishment 239
The Persistence of Female Relations 251
Conclusion: Woolf, Wilde, and Girl Dates 257
Notes 263
Bibliography 317
Illustration Credits 347
Index 349
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reviewed Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England on March 05, 2014
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
Is there anything more written about yet less understood than the desire(s) of the Victorian woman? After Foucault, we no longer see the Victorians as entirely sexually repressed, yet the ways in which those desires are articulated and performed remains problematic. Marcus enters the discourse with a discussion of relationships among females (friendly, maternal, and sexual), which are ubiquitous in Victorian culture and 19th-century marriage plot novels, yet overshadowed by an emphasis on heterosexual coupling.
Marcus shows how this emphasis, predicated on the belief that Victorian women found value and identity solely in heterosexual and heterosocial relationships, may be misread. Using Victorian lifewriting, novels, and fashion plates as her evidence, she argues that women of the 19th-century were primarily focused on their relationships with other women and that for a woman to have her emotional needs and erotic desires met by another woman was not an aberration but rather a cultural norm.
There are some fantastic leaps in logic here, and too great a reliance on Freudian interpretation of texts. The idea that a foot protruding from underneath a skirt in a fashion plate is intended or perceived by anyone to represent an erect clitoris is laughable, for example. Yet Marcus does, at the very least, open a discussion of friendship among Victorian women (and men), and invites more analysis of the many varied meanings indicated in the word "friend," especially in the context of the traditional marriage plot.
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