Worlds between : historical perspectives on gender and class

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Worlds between : historical perspectives on gender and class

Leonore Davidoff

Polity in association with Blackwell Publishers, 1995

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  • : pbk

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Volume

: hard ISBN 9780745609836

Description

This work presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history. Chapters include discussions of: the positions of servants and wives in Victorian and Edwardian England; the relationship between home and community in English society; the interconnections between class and gender, and new reflections on the role of the concepts of the public and private in women's history today.

Table of Contents

  • Mastered for life - servant and wife in Victorian and Edwardian England
  • landscape with figures - home and community in English Society, Howard Newby and Jeanne L'Esperance
  • the rationalization of housework
  • class and gender in Victorian England - the case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby
  • the separation of home and work?
  • landladies and lodgers in 19th-century England
  • the role of gender in the "first industrial nation"
  • farming and the countryside in England 1780-1850
  • where the stranger begins - the question of siblings in historical analysis
  • regarding some "old husbands' tales" - public and private in feminist history.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780745609843

Description

This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England 18 2 Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society (with Jeanne L'Esperance and Howard Newby) 41 3 The Rationalization of Housework 73 4 Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby 103 5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151 6 The Role of Gender in the 'First Industrial Nation': Farming and the Countryside in England, 1780-1850 180 7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis 206 8 Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History 227 PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World 231 PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their Consequences 249

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