Gender and Sexuality

• Gentlemanly Pride in Jane Eyre
• What Makes a Victorian Gentleman?
• Pride Among the Men and Women of Jane Eyre
• Misconceptions, Chastity and Deviance in Victorian-Era Sexuality in Jane Eyre
• The Materialization of Victorian Female Sexuality in Jane Eyre
• Prostitution
• History of Prostitution in Victorian England
• Portrayals of Prostitution in Jane Eyre
• Contagious Diseases Act
• Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act
• Rochester and the Rake
• The Rake Figure
• Rochester as Rake
• The Real Rochester
• “I Never Met your Likeness”: The Sexually Distinctive Jane Eyre
• Jane Eyre: An Argument for the Death of Patriarchy
• Gateshead: Jane’s Impetus
• Lowood: Where Jane is Qualified
• Thornfield: Jane’s Crown
• Moor House in Morton: More of the Same
• Ferndean and Better Homes and Gardens
• Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason: Differing Reactions to Patriarchal Oppression