Gender in eighteenth-century England : roles, representations, and responsibilities

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Gender in eighteenth-century England : roles, representations, and responsibilities

edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus

Addison Wesley Longman, 1997

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 250-260

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780582278264

Description

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision of the subject.

Table of Contents

Introduction.Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus Part One: Social reputations 2. Men about town: Representations of foppery and masculinity in early eighteenth-century urban society Philip Carter. 3. The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies? Kimberly Crouch. Part Two: Work and poverty. 4. Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c 1700-1840 Hannah Barker. 5. Women teachers and the expansion of girls schooling in England c. 1760-1820 Susan Skedd. 6. Poor women, the parish and the politics of povertyRichard Connors. Part Three: Politics and the political elite 7. `That epidemical Madness': women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth centuryElaine Chalus. 8. A politician's politician: Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire and the Whig party Amanda Foreman. Part Four: Periodicals and the printed image 9. Keeping up with the Bon Ton: the tete-a-tete series in the Town and Country Magazine Cindy McCreery. 10. `A bright pattern to all her sex': representations of women in periodical and newspaper biography Stephen Howard. Further reading. Index.
Volume

: hc ISBN 9780582278271

Description

A collection of essays drawing together recent historical research on gender and 18th-century England. The book examines the experiences of men and women in public and private life and challenges the generally accepted belief that the 18th century saw the establishment of sexually segregated spheres. Instead, by drawing widely on historical sources, the essays integrate gender and mainstream history to show how complex and fluid gender relations actually were.

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  • Social reputations
  • work and poverty
  • politics and the political elite
  • periodicals and the printed image.

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