Susan Kingsley Kent

Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines:
* the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women
* how power relationships were established within various gender systems
* how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds
* class, racial and ethnic considerations
* the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities
* the civil war
* twentieth century suffrage
* the world wars * industrialisation
* Victorian morality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134755127
• Artikelnr.: 42676721

Autorenporträt

Kingsley Kent, Susan

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
PART I: The seventeenth century: gender and the crises of authority
1. Challenging authority at mid-century
2. Restoring authority
1660-1715
PART II: The eighteenth century: engendering virtue - politics and morality in the age of commercial capitalism
3. Challenges to virtue: the economic revolutions
1690-1780
4. Manly dominions: war and empire
1689-179
5. Feminine encroachments: women
culture
and politics
1740-89
6. Domesticating revolution
1789-1815
PART III: The nineteenth century: "the angel in the house" and her critics - virtue and politics in the age of bourgeois liberalism
7. The virtues of liberalism: consolidating the domestic ideal
1815-48
8. "The Sex": women
work
and politics
1825-80
9. Imperial manliness
colonial effeminacy: the gender of empire
1823-73
10. Liberalism besieged
masculinity under fire
1873-1911
PART IV: The twentieth century: crises of conflict
crises of gender
11. Crises of masculinity: sex and war
1908-18
12. Searching for peace: the reconstruction of gender
1919-39
13. War
welfare
and postwar "consensus
" 1939-63
14. The end of consensus: "permissiveness" and Mrs Thatcher's reaction
1963-90
Index