LEADER 04376nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910449871303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-6462-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804764629 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008668 035 $a(OCoLC)70759164 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10042900 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000285678 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11226502 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285678 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10277707 035 $a(PQKB)11127229 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037453 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037453 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10042900 035 $a(OCoLC)923699720 035 $a(DE-B1597)582612 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804764629 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008668 100 $a20010124d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWomen, privilege, and power$b[electronic resource] $eBritish politics, 1750 to the present /$fedited by Amanda Vickery 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (427 p.) 225 1 $aThe making of modern freedom 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-4284-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tSeries Foreword -- $tContents -- $tCONTRIBUTORS -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. "To Serve my friends": Women and Political Patronage in Eighteenth-Century England -- $t2. 1784 and All That: Aristocratic Women and Electoral Politics -- $t3. British Women and Radical Politics in the Late Nonconformist Enlightenment, c. 1780-1830 -- $t4. From Almack's to Willis's: Aristocratic Women and Politics, 1815-1867 -- $t5. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Politics, and the Movements for Women's Suffrage, I865-1873 -- $t6. Contesting the Male Polity: The Suffragettes and the Politics of Disruption in Edwardian Britain -- $t7. The Privilege of Power: Suffrage Women and the Issue of Men's Support -- $t8. What Difference Did the Vote Make? -- $t9· "Behind Every Great Party": Women and Conservatism in Twentieth-Century Britain -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It shows how rank, property, and inheritance could confer de facto power on privileged women, and how across the centuries the arrogance of birth and title empowered aristocratic women to overawe enfranchised men of lower social standing. The essays contribute to an ongoing ?rethinking of the political,? a consequence in part of the rediscovery of the work of Jürgen Habermas by political and social historians. For Habermas, the public sphere included print media and voluntary associations, and the contributors stress the extent of female engagement in political culture broadly conceived. However, they extend this definition of the public sphere further still to include the ?private? world of family connections and friendship networks, within which political ideas were debated and new social practices played out. Many of the essays are inspired by a related effort to reintegrate radical female activists within their political milieu. Although feminist hagiography has accustomed us to see female activists as heroic outsiders rising sui generis from a hostile environment, recent research restores them to their intellectual and familial contexts. Finally, the contributors explore the limits and possibilities of women?s citizenship both before and after winning the right to vote. Together, the essays tell a continuous and complex story, redefining political activity and reassessing the turning points of British political history. 410 0$aMaking of modern freedom. 606 $aWomen$xPolitical activity$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen$xPolitical activity$xHistory. 676 $a306.2/082 701 $aVickery$b Amanda$0882027 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449871303321 996 $aWomen, privilege, and power$91970268 997 $aUNINA