Mary Poovey's "The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer" has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In "Uneven Developments" Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology.
Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions--medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they depended on the subordination of one term to another, were always unstable. Poovey contends that this instability helps explain why various institutional versions of binary logic developed unevenly. This unevenness, in turn, helped to account for the emergence in the 1850s of a genuine oppositional voice: the voice of an organized, politicized feminist movement.
Drawing on a wide range of sources--parliamentary debates, novels, medical lectures, feminist analyses of work, middle-class periodicals on demesticity--Poovey examines various controversies that provide glimpses of the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously constructed, deployed, and contested. These include debates about the use of chloroform in childbirth, the first divorce law, the professional status of writers, the plight of governesses, and the nature of the nursing corps. "Uneven Developments" is a contribution to the feminist analysis of culture and ideology that challenges the isolation of literary texts from other kinds of writing and the isolation of women's issues from economic and political histories.
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三星半。全书写的最好的就是第一章了。
评分第二章。围绕在分娩过程中以氯仿取代乙醚作为麻醉剂是否可行的争论，表面看是关于科学的探讨，实际上双方的论证一直都在宗教道德的层面。紧接着从麻醉剂的使用谈到对女性身体的矛盾呈现，指出女性身体是需要医学管控的场所，从而进一步确认医学的权威地位。然而在这一过程中，女性身体中难以被规训的部分使医学界自身陷入矛盾和混乱，由此可知，通过性别政治来建立权威其实是非常危险的一件事。启发: 从科学论证到道德论证的转移原来早在1988年就被写过了，不过Poovey是从性别-权力而不是国家理性的角度切入的，这也很有年代感；医学界内部主流与在野派的互相倾轧是另一场权力的游戏；与当时关于催眠术的论争何其相似，只不过催眠术没有明显的女性特质，也很难被划入纯粹科学的领域。
评分三星半。全书写的最好的就是第一章了。
评分第二章。围绕在分娩过程中以氯仿取代乙醚作为麻醉剂是否可行的争论，表面看是关于科学的探讨，实际上双方的论证一直都在宗教道德的层面。紧接着从麻醉剂的使用谈到对女性身体的矛盾呈现，指出女性身体是需要医学管控的场所，从而进一步确认医学的权威地位。然而在这一过程中，女性身体中难以被规训的部分使医学界自身陷入矛盾和混乱，由此可知，通过性别政治来建立权威其实是非常危险的一件事。启发: 从科学论证到道德论证的转移原来早在1988年就被写过了，不过Poovey是从性别-权力而不是国家理性的角度切入的，这也很有年代感；医学界内部主流与在野派的互相倾轧是另一场权力的游戏；与当时关于催眠术的论争何其相似，只不过催眠术没有明显的女性特质，也很难被划入纯粹科学的领域。
评分三星半。全书写的最好的就是第一章了。
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