In literature and social activism, Victorian women used gift exchanges to establish kinship and political alliances. In Giving Women, Jill Rappoport argues that through intimate gifts, they achieved both personal and public agency, mobilizing networks outside of marriage and the market to advance legal, scientific, and religious reforms.
In literature and social activism, Victorian women used gift exchanges to establish kinship and political alliances. In Giving Women, Jill Rappoport argues that through intimate gifts, they achieved both personal and public agency, mobilizing networks outside of marriage and the market to advance legal, scientific, and religious reforms.
Jill Rappoport is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
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INTRODUCTION I. Women Giving II. Gifts of Writing III. Organization of the Book PART I Balanced Accounts CHAPTER 1 Literary Offerings I. Benevolent Books, Receptive Readers II. Gifts of Freedom III. Alliance and Exchange CHAPTER 2 Fictions of Reciprocity in Jane Eyre and Aurora Leigh I. Jane's Inheritance II. "An[other] Undowered Orphan" III. Blind Economies CHAPTER 3 Conservation in Cranford: Sympathy, Secrets, and the First Law of Thermodynamics I. The Science of Giving II. Secrets in Circulation PART II Much Obliged CHAPTER 4 The Price of Redemption in "Goblin Market" I. Sisterhood "Beyond the Reach of Any Remuneration" II. Lizzie's Silver Penny III. The Safest Investments CHAPTER 5 Service and Savings in the Slums I. "Lower Still": Sacrifice and Sistering the Slums II. Cupboards, Chairs, and Conversion III. "Coming Down" in order to Rise Up: Risk and Asset IV. Writing the Slums CHAPTER 6 The Give and Take of "New-Woman" Eugenics I. Consuming Women, Selfish Mothers II. Bio-Altruism III. The Sacrifice of Motherhood EPILOGUE Homemade Jams and Militant Martyrs: Politics of Generosity in Campaigns for Women's Suffrage I. Appealing for the Vote II. Dying for the Vote III. A Politics of Generosity WORKS CITED
INTRODUCTION I. Women Giving II. Gifts of Writing III. Organization of the Book PART I Balanced Accounts CHAPTER 1 Literary Offerings I. Benevolent Books, Receptive Readers II. Gifts of Freedom III. Alliance and Exchange CHAPTER 2 Fictions of Reciprocity in Jane Eyre and Aurora Leigh I. Jane's Inheritance II. "An[other] Undowered Orphan" III. Blind Economies CHAPTER 3 Conservation in Cranford: Sympathy, Secrets, and the First Law of Thermodynamics I. The Science of Giving II. Secrets in Circulation PART II Much Obliged CHAPTER 4 The Price of Redemption in "Goblin Market" I. Sisterhood "Beyond the Reach of Any Remuneration" II. Lizzie's Silver Penny III. The Safest Investments CHAPTER 5 Service and Savings in the Slums I. "Lower Still": Sacrifice and Sistering the Slums II. Cupboards, Chairs, and Conversion III. "Coming Down" in order to Rise Up: Risk and Asset IV. Writing the Slums CHAPTER 6 The Give and Take of "New-Woman" Eugenics I. Consuming Women, Selfish Mothers II. Bio-Altruism III. The Sacrifice of Motherhood EPILOGUE Homemade Jams and Militant Martyrs: Politics of Generosity in Campaigns for Women's Suffrage I. Appealing for the Vote II. Dying for the Vote III. A Politics of Generosity WORKS CITED
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