Victorians and the Virgin Mary

This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise our understanding of the Victorian religious landscape, both retrieving Catholics from the cultural margins to which they are usually relegated, and calling for a reassessment of the Protestant attitude to the feminine ideal. This book will be useful to advanced students and scholars in a variety of disciplines including history, religious studies, Victorian studies, women's history and gender studies, as well as the educated lay reader who is interested in changing views of the Virgin Mary.

ISBN 0719077532   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780719077531 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 408 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title Gender in History Publication date 01 May 2008   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress BT603   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 274.2081   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

1		Religion, gender, and the Virgin Mary		1
2		The Catholic Virgin Mary		35
3		The Protestant Virgin Mary		77
4		Sex, sin, and salvation : the debate over the Immaculate Conception		116
5		The Virgin Mary and the formation of Victorian masculinities		144
		Bibliography		182
		Index		217

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