
Worlds Between
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class
Leonore Davidoff(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 23. May 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7456-0984-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.
Reviews / Votes
"No historian in the past twenty years has made a more significant contribution to the history of family and gender than Leonore Davidoff. The two well-known essays on domestic service in Victorian England, reprinted here, show this approach at its most sophisticated and regarding, but there is much else in this rich volume, notably Davidoff's more recent reflections on feminist history." History Today "[A] fine collection ... [which] retain[s] a freshness and originality. This collection brings together some of the most influential essays in feminist history. There is little scope in this review to do justice to the depth and richness of this excellent collection. Her mastery of her subject and material, the detailed evidence she brings to bear, the sheer breadth of her understanding and scholarship, deserves to make this collection a classic as each essay, in its turn, has already become." Reviews in HistoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-0984-3 (9780745609843)
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Person
Leonore Davidoff, the founding editor of Gender & History, is Research Professor in Social History, University of Essex. She is the author of numerous works in gender history including, with Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes, and The Family Story with Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden.
Keith McClelland teaches history at Middlesex University, London, is co-editor of Gender & History, and is the author with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall of Defining the Victorian Nation.
Keith McClelland teaches history at Middlesex University, London, is co-editor of Gender & History, and is the author with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall of Defining the Victorian Nation.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England 18
2 Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society (with Jeanne L'Esperance and Howard Newby) 41
3 The Rationalization of Housework 73
4 Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby 103
5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151
6 The Role of Gender in the 'First Industrial Nation': Farming and the Countryside in England, 1780-1850 180
7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis 206
8 Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History 227
PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World 231
PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their
Consequences 249
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England 18
2 Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society (with Jeanne L'Esperance and Howard Newby) 41
3 The Rationalization of Housework 73
4 Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby 103
5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151
6 The Role of Gender in the 'First Industrial Nation': Farming and the Countryside in England, 1780-1850 180
7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis 206
8 Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History 227
PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World 231
PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their
Consequences 249