White, Male and Middle Class
Explorations in Feminism and History
Published on 23. April 2013
320 pages
978-0-7456-6682-2 (ISBN)
Description
What are the relations between feminism and history, feministpolitics and historical practice? What are the connections betweengender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnicdifference played in the construction of Englishness?
Through a series of provocative and richly detailed essays,Catherine Hall explores these questions. She argues that feminismhas opened up vital new questions for history and transformedfamiliar historical narratives. Class can no longer be understoodoutside of gender, or gender outside of class.
But English identities have also been rooted in imperial power.White, Male and Middle Class explores the ways in whichmiddle-class masculinities were rooted in conceptions of power overdependants - whether black or female.
Through a series of provocative and richly detailed essays,Catherine Hall explores these questions. She argues that feminismhas opened up vital new questions for history and transformedfamiliar historical narratives. Class can no longer be understoodoutside of gender, or gender outside of class.
But English identities have also been rooted in imperial power.White, Male and Middle Class explores the ways in whichmiddle-class masculinities were rooted in conceptions of power overdependants - whether black or female.
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Catherine Hall is the author (with Leonore Davidoff) of Family Fortunes: Men and Women in the English Middle Class 1780-1850.
Content
Acknowledgements vii
1 Feminism and Feminist History 1
Part I The Beginnings
2 The History of the Housewife 43
Part II Gender and Class
3 The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology 75
4 Gender Divisions and Class Formation in the Birmingham MiddleClass, 1780-1850 94
5 The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker: the shop andthe family in the Industrial Revolution 108
6 The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-classculture in early-nineteenth-century
England 124
7 Private Persons versus Public Someones: class, gender andpolitics in England, 1780-1850 151
8 Strains in the 'Firm of Wife, Children andFriends': middle-class women and employment in
early-nineteenth-century England 172
Part III Race, Ethnicity and Difference
9 Missionary Stories: gender and ethnicity in England in the1830s and 1840s 205
10 Competing Masculinities: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill andthe case of Governor Eyre 255
Index 296
1 Feminism and Feminist History 1
Part I The Beginnings
2 The History of the Housewife 43
Part II Gender and Class
3 The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology 75
4 Gender Divisions and Class Formation in the Birmingham MiddleClass, 1780-1850 94
5 The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker: the shop andthe family in the Industrial Revolution 108
6 The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-classculture in early-nineteenth-century
England 124
7 Private Persons versus Public Someones: class, gender andpolitics in England, 1780-1850 151
8 Strains in the 'Firm of Wife, Children andFriends': middle-class women and employment in
early-nineteenth-century England 172
Part III Race, Ethnicity and Difference
9 Missionary Stories: gender and ethnicity in England in the1830s and 1840s 205
10 Competing Masculinities: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill andthe case of Governor Eyre 255
Index 296
