The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800 / edited by Lucy Delap, Ben Griffin and Abigail Wills.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delap, Lucy.

Griffin, Ben.

Wills, Abigail.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family policy--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Family policy.

Family policy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Domestic relations--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Domestic relations.

Domestic relations--Great Britain--History--19th century.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

Part I Violence and the Law

'I am Master Here': Illegitimacy, Masculinity, and Violence in Victorian England / G. Frost

'the instrument of an animal function': Marital Rape and Sexual Cruelty in the Divorce Court, 1858-1908 / G. Savage

Part II Poverty and the State

Irish Orphans and the Politics of Domestic Authority / A. Clark

Fatherhood and Family Shame: Masculinity, Welfare and the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth Century England / M. Doolittle

Part III Domesticity

'Tiresome trips downstairs': Middle-Class Domestic Space and Family Relationships in England, 1850-1910 / J. Hamlett

Love and Authority in Mid Twentieth-Century Marriages: Sharing and Caring / S. Szreter, K. Fisher

'A paradise on earth, a foretaste of Heaven': English Catholic Understandings of Domesticity and Marriage, 1945-65 / A. Harris

Part IV Domestic Service

Domestic Servants as Poachers of Print: Reading, Authority and Resistance in Late Victorian Britain / M. Beetham

Authority, Dependence and Power in Accounts of Twentieth Century Domestic Service / J. Giles

Part V Parenting and Childhood

Childcare and Neglect: a Comparative Local Study of Late Nineteenth-Century Parental Authority / S. Pooley

Godfathering: The Politics of Victorian Family Relations / V. Sanders

'Beating children is wrong': Domestic life, Psychological Thinking and the Permissive Turn / D. Thom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230579941

0230579949

OCLC:

318873066