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This study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how Victorian 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

Table of Contents

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

Victorians and the Virgin Mary Gender in History

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 5/31/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719095641, 978-0719095641
      ISBN10: 0719095646

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how Victorian 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

      Table of Contents

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

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