Kendra Frishcosy
Annotated Bib in the works
Sources: All links will be removed in the final product. I constructed reasoning behind each
source. I have one primary source, 3 scholarly sources (two of which are secondary to Jane
Eyre) and 2 other sources. One of the secondary sources to Jane Eyre is from 1972 and the
other is from 2008.
Benvenuto, Richard. "The Child of Nature, The Child of Grace, and the Unresolved Conflict of
Jane Eyre." ELH 39.4 (1972): 620-638.
(http://www.jstor.org.proxy.lib.wayne.edu/stable/2872703?seq=9)
This is a secondary scholarly article about Jane Eyre published in 1972. The source stresses
social acceptance of identity and how it relates to gender. A lot of his analysis is focused on
religion. I am going to stay away from using religion however, I am going to use his point of
Nature vs. Grace because it perfectly demonstrates Men & Women VS. The Third Gender. His
broad concepts on gender promote my ideas of a hierarchy being placed amongst a gender
dichotomy creating the idea of multiple genders.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. London; Service & Paton, 1897. eBook.
Jane Eyre is my primary text. My project II enforced the idea of a dehumanized third gender role
in this text and all of my articles I am grabbing relate to Jane Eyre, social construction, sexuality
and gender identities in the Victorian Era.
Davidoff, Leonore. "Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J. Munby and
Hannah Cullwick." JSTOR. Feminist Studies, Inc., 1979. Web. 25 Oct. 2013.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3177552?seq=5&Search=yes&searchText=sexism&searc
hText=victorian&searchText=era&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSe
arch%3FQuery%3Dsexism%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bvictorian%2Bera%26acc%3Don%
26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=17&ttl=1192&returnArticleServic
e=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null
This is the source that may cause me a bit of frustration. This scholarly article from 1979 says
almost word for word exactly what I am thinking about. Davidoff even mentions the hierarchy. I
am going to start stressing the idea of more than 3 genders in my argument because of his
argument. He pretty much only mentions the three genders like I did in my project II but he
doesn’t mention that there are more than three.
Gresham, Leesa, Heather Miller, and Abeni Peyton. "Sex Changes Evolution of Female
Sexuality in America (resubmit)." JRScience. N.p., 19 Mar. 2001. Web. 25 Oct. 2013.
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/humannature01/ProposalArticles/SexChanges.Evol
utionofFem.html
This is not a scholarly nor a secondary source. This source has nothing to do with Jane Eyre. I
only selected this source for the time being. I haven’t found a better source as of right now that
stresses the Madonna-whore complex that is mentioned in this experiment. This was a scenario
that was prevalent in the Victorian period and displays another dichotomy that differs from the
socioeconomic dichotomy I have presented. I will be searching for a better refence.
Lemaster, Tracy. "M/Othering the Children." Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting Innovative
Theories in Art, Literature, History, Music, TV and Film. Ehrenwerks, LLC, 2008. Web.
25 Oct. 2013 (http://www.genders.org/g47/g47_lemaster.html)
This is a scholarly secondary source from 2008 about Jane Eyre. I very much disagree with her
concepts of marriage and children on this psychoanalytical approach Lemaster has taken. There
are quite a few points of hers that dip into the idea of multiple genders but her points are quite
incorrect from this psychoanalytic point. I am not going into a Freudian theory behind Jane Eyre.
She has the right evidence to back up the wrong statements. Lemaster also depicts another
gender in children. So, this breaks gender between childhood and adulthood. This dichotomy is
very important in the explanation because boys do not become men at the same rate that girls
become women—if they get to.
“Victorian Women—Social and Economic Status: Class and Occupation.” The Victorian Web.
Brown University, n.d. Web. 10 October 2013.
I have used this reference before and intend on using it again. Parts of this site really express
employment and gender classifications that back up my argument.