Hidden hands

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"Tracing the Victorian literary crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 parliamentary blue book on mines and its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because the worker exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Women and literature,  Literature and society,  Intellectual life,  History and criticism,  Working class women in literature,  Social problems in literature,  English Working class writings,  English fiction,  Working class women,  History,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  Social classes in literature,  Women in literature,  Women, great britain

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century