ABSTRACT
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
* the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities
* the civil war
* twentieth century suffrage
* the world wars * industrialisation
* Victorian morality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|49 pages
The seventeenth century
chapter |2 pages
General Introduction
chapter Chapter 1|20 pages
Challenging authority at mid-century
chapter Chapter 2|25 pages
Restoring authority, 1660–1715
part II|100 pages
The eighteenth century
part III|105 pages
The nineteenth century
chapter |2 pages
General Introduction
chapter Chapter 10|27 pages
Liberalism besieged, masculinity under fire, 1873–1911
part IV|99 pages
The twentieth century