The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-century EnglandThis is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. This was the golden age of graphic satire: thousands of prints were published, and they were viewed by nearly all sections of the population. These prints both reflected and sought to shape contemporary debate about the role of women in society. Cindy McCreery's study examines the beliefs and prejudices of Georgian England which they revealed. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Late EighteenthCentury England | 3 |
Women in Late EighteenthCentury England | 4 |
Women in Satirical Prints | 6 |
State of the Field | 7 |
Structure of the Book | 10 |
Satirical Prints of Women and the London Art Market | 13 |
Scope of the Art Market | 14 |
Women in the Classroom and on the Playing Field | 133 |
Feminine and Unfeminine Fashions and Female Sexual Power | 139 |
Women as Politicians | 141 |
Conclusion | 147 |
Women at Home and Abroad I Aristocratic Adulteresses and Patriotic Wives | 148 |
Attitudes to Marriage | 149 |
Aristocratic Adulteresses | 153 |
Aristocratic Wives Social Influence | 167 |
Production and Distribution | 19 |
Consumption and Response | 30 |
Conclusion | 38 |
Women in the Street Prostitutes and Market Vendors | 39 |
Traditional Views of Prostitutes | 40 |
Prostitutes Market Vendors and the London Landscape | 45 |
Prostitutes as Outsiders | 57 |
Prostitutes as Victims | 71 |
Conclusion | 77 |
Women on the Stage Courtesans and Scandalous Actresses | 80 |
Definitions | 81 |
The Visual Tradition | 84 |
Kitty Fisher and her Successors | 86 |
Courtesans and Scandalous Actresses in the 1780s and 1790s | 99 |
Courtesans and the Limits of Social Acceptance | 105 |
Conclusion | 113 |
Women in Male Roles Literary Ladies and Masculine Politicians | 115 |
Women as Muses Artists Writers and Performers | 116 |
Victimized and Exemplary Wives | 173 |
Conclusion | 182 |
Women at Home and Abroad II Fashionable Mammas and Natural Mothers | 185 |
Attitudes to Motherhood | 186 |
Fashionable Motherhood | 187 |
Powerful Mothers | 195 |
Powerless Mothers | 202 |
Conclusion | 210 |
Women over 35 Old Maids Merry Widows and Cosy Wives | 212 |
Marital and Social Categories | 213 |
Fashion and Women over 35 | 229 |
Single Old Aristocratic Women | 237 |
Conclusion | 249 |
Conclusion | 252 |
Bibliography | 256 |
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Common terms and phrases
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