Clark Scandal

The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4954-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Anna Clark Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, and the editor of the Journal of British Studies. She is the author of The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class, which won the British Council Book Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies. She is also the author of many other works in the field of British history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1

CHAPTER TWO Wilkes, Sexuality, and Liberty: How Scandal Transforms Politics 19

CHAPTER THREE Influence or Independence: Women and Elections, 1777-1788 53

CHAPTER FOUR Edmund Burke and the Begums of Oudh: Gender, Empire, and Public Opinion 84

CHAPTER FIVE Scandal in an Age of Revolution 113

CHAPTER SIX From Petticoat Influence to Women's Rights? 126

CHAPTER SEVEN The Mary Anne Clarke Affair and the System of Corruption 148

CHAPTER EIGHT Queen Caroline and the Sexual Politics of the British Constitution 177

CHAPTER NINE Sexual Scandals and Politics, Past and Present 208

Notes 225

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Clark Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, and the editor of the Journal of British Studies. She is the author of The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class, which won the British Council Book Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies. She is also the author of many other works in the field of British history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.