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For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens fromSesame and Lilieswas read as alocus classicusof Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.Birch, Dinah is the author of 'Ruskin and Gender' with ISBN 9780333968970 and ISBN 0333968972.
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