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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Susan, 1952-2003.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Great Britain--Sex differences--History.

Political participation.

Gender identity--Political aspects--Great Britain--History.

Gender identity.

Masculinity--Political aspects--Great Britain--History.

Masculinity.

Power (Social sciences)--Great Britain--History.

Power (Social sciences).

Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History.

Women.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Other Title:

Gender + power in Britain, 1640-1990

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

9780203006672

OCLC:

559166142