The Odd Women
by George Gissing
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 2003
ISBN/ASIN: 155111111X
Number of pages: 278
Description:
George Gissing's The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of 'odd' or 'redundant' women, the cultural impact of 'the new woman,' and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy.
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