TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ylivuori,Soile
TI  - Women and politeness in eighteenth-century England: bodies, identities, and power 
T2  - Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies
SN  - 9781138318663
AV  - DA485 .Y55 2019
U1  - 390.082/0942 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Courtesy
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-283) and index; Framing the stage : politeness and the body -- Gendered politeness and power -- Hypocrisy and strategic dissimulation -- Playing with public and private -- Multiple identities -- Discipline and subversion
N2  - "This first in-depth study of women's politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women's autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities, and women's possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity"--
UR  - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16yeH78vvuMwh3h1T5bv4uqfz4KN4q49j/view?usp=sharing
ER  -