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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783707003321

Autore

Kent Susan Kingsley

Titolo

Gender and power in Britain, 1640-1990 / / Susan Kingsley Kent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-75512-0

1-134-75513-9

0-415-75699-5

0-203-00667-4

1-280-42895-3

0-203-15860-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/0941

Soggetti

Political participation - Great Britain - Sex differences - History

Gender identity - Political aspects - Great Britain - History

Masculinity - Political aspects - Great Britain - History

Power (Social sciences) - Great Britain - History

Women - Political activity - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Politics and government 1485-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; The seventeenth century: gender and the crises of authority; Challenging authority at mid-century; Restoring authority, 1660  1715; The eighteenth century: engendering virtue; politics and morality in the age of commercial capitalism; Challenges to virtue: the economic revolutions, 1690  1780; Manly dominions: war and empire, 1689  1793; Feminine encroachments: women, culture, and politics, 1740  89; Domesticating revolution, 1789  1815; The nineteenth century: ~the angel in the house~ and her critics

virtue and politics in the age of bourgeois liberalismThe virtues of liberalism: consolidating the domestic ideal, 1815  48; ~The Sex~: women, work, and politics, 1825  80; Imperial manliness, colonial effeminacy: the gender of empire, 1823  73; Liberalism besieged,



masculinity under fire, 1873  1911; The twentieth century: crises of conflict, crises of gender; Crises of masculinity: sex and war, 1908  18; Searching for peace: the reconstruction of gender, 1919  39; War, welfare, and postwar ~consensus,~ 1939  63; The end of consensus: ~permissiveness~ and Mrs Thatcher's reaction, 1963  90

Index

Sommario/riassunto

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* t