Worlds Between
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class
Published on 23. May 1995
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-7456-0983-6 (ISBN)
Description
This work presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history. Chapters include discussions of: the positions of servants and wives in Victorian and Edwardian England; the relationship between home and community in English society; the interconnections between class and gender, and new reflections on the role of the concepts of the public and private in women's history today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-0983-6 (9780745609836)
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Content
Mastered for life - servant and wife in Victorian and Edwardian England; landscape with figures - home and community in English Society, Howard Newby and Jeanne L'Esperance; the rationalization of housework; class and gender in Victorian England - the case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby; the separation of home and work?; landladies and lodgers in 19th-century England; the role of gender in the "first industrial nation"; farming and the countryside in England 1780-1850; where the stranger begins - the question of siblings in historical analysis; regarding some "old husbands' tales" - public and private in feminist history.