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Author Himmelfarb, Gertrude.

Title The de-moralization of society : from Victorian virtues to modern values / Gertrude Himmelfarb.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : A.A. Knopf ; 1995, c1994.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.372 H576d    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 314 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-306) and index.
Contents Manners and morals -- Household gods and goddesses -- Feminism, Victorian style -- "The mischievous ambiguity of the word poor" -- "Gain all you can...give all you can" -- The Jew as Victorian -- The new women and the new men.
Subject Social values.
Social values -- England.
United States -- Moral conditions.
England -- Moral conditions
United States -- Social conditions.
England -- Social conditions.
ISBN 0679438173

 
    
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