Institutional intimacy: gender, contested sexuality and relationships in the 19th Century British Parliament

这个博士学位着眼于个人的遭遇和亲密关系，特别是妇女和少数群体的经历，影响了世纪议会。首要的研究问题是：情绪（特别是与亲密关系有关的情绪）在当代议会中做了什么“工作”？亲密关系与精英政治和异性恋规范的男性化政治制度的纠缠本质是什么？博士询问目前研究不足的政治/社会历史领域。维多利亚时代理想化的“无性道德天使”如何与“无法抑制的肉欲”政治人物互动？有争议的性取向是如何打破传统的二元对立的？我们能找到什么证据来证明隐藏的亲密关系和秘密事件，这些事件的主角和其他人是如何描述和解释的？这些动态是如何被阶级折射的？在议会中，权力的性别和非性别等级是什么？什么构成了议会的“丑闻”，这些丑闻是如何发生的？

This PhD looks at individual encounters and intimate relationships, especially as experienced by womenand minority groups, that influenced the Nineteenth Century Parliament. The overarching researchquestion is: what 'work' was emotion (and specifically emotion tied to intimate relationships) doing in thecontemporary Parliament? What was the nature of intimacy's entanglement with elite politics and aheteronormative masculinised political institution?The PhD asks about currently under-researched areas of political/social history. How did the idealisedVictorian "sexless moral angel" interact with the "irrepressibly carnal" political man (Poovey 1989)? Howdid contested sexualities queer traditional, binary oppositions? What evidence can we find of hiddenintimacies and clandestine affairs, and how were these described and interpreted by their protagonists,and others? How were these dynamics refracted by class? What were the hierarchies of power-sexualand non-sexual-within Parliament? What constituted a parliamentary 'scandal', and how did these playout?