Watching Hannah: Sex, Horror and Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England (Picturing History)

by Barry Reay

Series:Reaktion Books - Picturing History

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Arthur Munby (1828-1910) was a Victorian gentleman from a respected family of Yorkshire lawyers. He left behind diaries that record his life-long obsession with working-class Victorian women, whom he interviewed, photographed and wrote about. This obsession led to his relationship with, and eventual secret marriage to, his maidservant Hannah Cullwick.Working women fascinated Munby because they disrupted his Victorian ideal of femininity: their bodies were altered by physical exertion and show more dirt, and they were also often deformed by disease. Drawing not only on the diaries but also on a vast, unt show less

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Barry Reay is Professor Emeritus of History and former Keith Sinclair Chair at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. A leading historian of the social and cultural history of sex and gender, his books include the Polity publications Sex Before Sexuality and Sex Addiction: A Critical History.

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People/Characters: Hannah Cullwick; Arthur J. Munby
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Watching Hannah: Sex, Horror and Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England (Picturing History)

by Barry Reay

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