LEADER 04258pam 2200553 a 450 001 996247907603316 005 20230828225616.0 010 $a0-520-91905-X 010 $a0-585-33963-5 024 7 $a2027/heb04355 035 $a(CKB)111057870445270 035 $a(MH)005271444-6 035 $a(dli)HEB04355 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005544317 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870445270 100 $a19931223d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe struggle for the breeches $egender and the making of the British working class /$fAnna Clark 205 $a1st pbk. printing 1997. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 416 p. )$cill. ; 225 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v23 311 $a0-520-20883-8 311 $a0-520-08624-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 377-401) and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- pt. 1. Women and Men in Plebeian Culture. 2. Setting the Stage: Work and Family, 1780-1825. 3. Men and Women Together and Apart: Plebeian Culture and Communities. 4. Plebeian Sexual Morality, 1780-1820. 5. The Struggle for the Breeches: Conflict in Plebeian Marriage -- pt. 2. The Search for Solutions. 6. Sin and Salvation: Men, Women, and Faith. 7. The Struggle over the Gender Division of Labor, 1780-1826. 8. Manhood and Citizenship: Radical Politics, 1767-1816. 9. A Wider Vision of Community, 1815-1820 -- pt. 3. Domesticity and the Making of the Working Class, 1820-1850. 10. Sexual Radicalism and the Pressure of Politics. 11. Equality or Domesticity: the Dilemma for Labor. 12. Chartism: Domesticity and Politics. 13. Chartism and the Problem of Women Workers. 14. A Difficult Ideal: Domesticity in Popular Culture and Practice -- 15. Conclusion -- Appendix on 1841 Glasgow Census Sample. 330 $aLinking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a "struggle for the breeches." The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division of labor, and sexual mores, changes that were intimately intertwined with class politics. By integrating gender into the analysis of class formation, Clark transforms the traditional narrative of working-class history. Going beyond the sterile debate about whether economics or language determines class consciousness, Clark integrates working people's experience with an analysis of radical rhetoric. Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, she contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies. Workers faced a "sexual crisis," Clark claims, as men and women competed for jobs and struggled over love and power in the family. While some radicals espoused respectability, others might be homophobes, wife-beaters, and tyrants at home a radical's love of liberty could be coupled with lust for the life of a libertine. Clark shows that in trying to create a working class these radicals closed off the movement to women, instead adopting a conservative rhetoric of domesticity and narrowing their notion of the working class. 517 3 $aGender and the making of the British working class 606 $aWorking class$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSex role$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions$y19th century 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aWorking class$xHistory. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 676 $a305.5/62/0941 700 $aClark$b Anna$0327301 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bUKM 801 2$bSLR 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247907603316 996 $aThe struggle for the breeches$92420799 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress