THE ‘SCRATCHED’ SELF – OR THE STORY OF THE VICTORIAN FEMALE SELF
THE ‘SCRATCHED’ SELF – OR THE STORY OF THE VICTORIAN FEMALE SELF

Summary/Abstract: The Victorian period was an era of constantly shifting and contradicting ideologies concerning women, which extended over many areas of society and culture including politics, the press, the domestic field, as well as the very system of traditions and beliefs that would characterize the whole age. That was also the time when the issue of female self-identity laid its infused what used to be, up to that moment, an exclusively male-dominated world. Paraphrasing Descartes’ most known phrase, one may say that women’s motto at that time was “We voice ourselves, therefore we exist!” for women seemed to have engaged in a Them versus Us fight, whose stake was to pull down the barriers that separated their world, ‘The Other Side’, from men’s world, the place where the real action was taking place.

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