Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change
by Gaye Tuchman
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Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, ""men of letters"" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women.Tuchman documents how men gradually show more supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part becau show lessTags
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Gaye Tuchman is professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality and Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change, editor of The TV Establishment: Programming far Power and Profit, and coeditor of Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass show more Media. show less
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