Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-14741-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kingsley Kent, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kingsley Kent, Susan