04188oam 2200757I 450 991078370700332120230207223917.01-134-75512-01-134-75513-90-415-75699-50-203-00667-41-280-42895-30-203-15860-110.4324/9780203006672 (CKB)1000000000250187(EBL)165238(OCoLC)559166142(SSID)ssj0000161047(PQKBManifestationID)11171830(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161047(PQKBWorkID)10197865(PQKB)11439721(MiAaPQ)EBC165238(Au-PeEL)EBL165238(CaPaEBR)ebr10017786(CaONFJC)MIL42895(OCoLC)48139487(EXLCZ)99100000000025018720180331d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender and power in Britain, 1640-1990 /Susan Kingsley KentLondon ;New York :Routledge,1999.1 online resource (377 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-14742-5 0-415-14741-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 criticsvirtue 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 90IndexGender 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* tGender + power in Britain, 1640-1990Political participationGreat BritainSex differencesHistoryGender identityPolitical aspectsGreat BritainHistoryMasculinityPolitical aspectsGreat BritainHistoryPower (Social sciences)Great BritainHistoryWomenPolitical activityGreat BritainHistoryGreat BritainPolitics and government1485-Political participationSex differencesHistory.Gender identityPolitical aspectsHistory.MasculinityPolitical aspectsHistory.Power (Social sciences)History.WomenPolitical activityHistory.305.42/0941Kent Susan Kingsley.1583995MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783707003321Gender and power in Britain, 1640-19903867540UNINA