Worlds Between
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class
Published on 17. June 2013
288 pages
978-0-7456-7695-1 (ISBN)
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This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.
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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.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and EdwardianEngland 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 HannahCullwick and A.J. Munby 103
5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers inNineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151
6 The Role of Gender in the 'First IndustrialNation': Farming and the Countryside in England,1780-1850 180
7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings inHistorical Analysis 206
8 Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Publicand Private in Feminist History 227
PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World231
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 EdwardianEngland 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 HannahCullwick and A.J. Munby 103
5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers inNineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151
6 The Role of Gender in the 'First IndustrialNation': Farming and the Countryside in England,1780-1850 180
7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings inHistorical Analysis 206
8 Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Publicand Private in Feminist History 227
PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World231
PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their
Consequences 249
