Gender Realities : Survival Strategies
Contents: Preface. 1. Growing up alone: the female orphan child. 2. Children of a lesser God. 3. Voices of anguish. 4. Search for love and identity. 5. The authorial point of view. 6. From weakness to strength. Work cited.
Gender Realities : Survival Strategies is a book about the single woman in the works of major Victorian novelists (1840-60). It is valuable for its indepth study of the socio-psychological problems of children with absent family structure and highlights social spaces, locations and survival battles of women progressing from weakness to strength. The book provides a useful and engrossing study, taking up feminist issues in light of modern and recent critical works. It also exhibits the literary achievements of the writers and makes a significant contribution to gender and literary studies.
Divided into six chapters, the work questions the whole myth of family protection and portrays the journey of the Victorian heroine from childhood to a state of self dependent individual.
Gender Realities : Survival Strategies is a book about the single woman in the works of major Victorian novelists (1840-60). It is valuable for its indepth study of the socio-psychological problems of children with absent family structure and highlights social spaces, locations and survival battles of women progressing from weakness to strength. The book provides a useful and engrossing study, taking up feminist issues in light of modern and recent critical works. It also exhibits the literary achievements of the writers and makes a significant contribution to gender and literary studies.
Divided into six chapters, the work questions the whole myth of family protection and portrays the journey of the Victorian heroine from childhood to a state of self dependent individual.
