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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.



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Introduction 1. Framing the Stage: Politeness and the Body 2. Gendered Politeness and Power 3. Hypocrisy and Strategic Dissimulation 4. Playing with Public and Private 5. Multiple Identities 6. Discipline and Subversion. Epilogue

Women and Politeness in EighteenthCentury England

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/23/2018 12:10:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781138318663, 978-1138318663
      ISBN10: 1138318663
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction 1. Framing the Stage: Politeness and the Body 2. Gendered Politeness and Power 3. Hypocrisy and Strategic Dissimulation 4. Playing with Public and Private 5. Multiple Identities 6. Discipline and Subversion. Epilogue

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