Klasa, polnost i žensko telo u viktorijanskoj Engleskoj
Sexuality and Female Body in Victorian England

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at offering an insight into the complex interplay of class ideology and female sexuality in Victorian England, showing how otherwise diverse Victorian bourgeoisie achieved its class homogeneity and hegemony through the creation of common ideas about female morality and honour. It shows how the ideology of household, of separate spheres, and of ‘naturally’ different roles of man and woman played an important role in that process of class self-defining. The vantage point in the analysis is Foucaultian view of power as not only regulatory but also productive. Particular attention is given not only to the analysis of the concept of so called respectable femininity, a notion that at that time represented a complex combination of moral, religious, economic and cultural systems applied exclusively to the middle class women, but also to the various ways of women’s resistance.

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