The politics of focus. Women, children and nineteenth-century photography.

[The author reconsiders histories and theories of 19th c. photography.... collectively they reveal the extent to which .. there endures an erroneaous myth of Victorian photography's untroubled relationship to realism.]
Chapters :
1. The politics of focus: feminism and photography theory ;
2. "This Old House": Cameron and Hawarden ;
3. "Lady Sings the Blues": the woman amateur and the album ;
4. "Me and My Shadow": the double in 19th c. photography ;
5. "Take Back Your Mink": Lewis Carroll, child masquerade and the age of consent ;
6. The Shoe-black to the crossing sweeper: Victorian street Arabs and photography ;
Index.