Borderline Citizens

This volume provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is based upon extensive archival research, but also engages with recent feminist theories in the social sciences, such as psychology and sociology. The volume is innovative too for its attention to rural experiences of politics, as well as urban. Dr Gleadle not only throws new light on women's political activities but also does much to challenge many traditional assumptions about contemporary politics per se. This includes, for example, fresh insights into the great Reform Act of 1832, attention to the many continuities in political practice and ideas, and a focus upon the primary significance of parish politics within the day-to-day activities of the middling and gentry classes.

ISBN 0197264492   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780197264492 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 669 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs Format Hardback   Height (mm) 240 Publication date 24 Sep 2009   Width (mm) 161 DEWEY 941.081082   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 332

		Introduction		1
I		Women, Gender, and the Landscape of Politics		23
1		Borderline citizens: women and the political process		25
2		Women, the public sphere, and collective identities		61
3		Women and the family in political culture		92
4		Community, authority, and parochial realms		123
II		Case Studies and Micro-Histories		157
5		Women and the 1832 Reform Act		159
6		Land and dynastic subjectivity: the public spheres of Mary Ann Gilbert		192
7		'Doing good by wholesale': women, gender, and politics in the family network of Thomas Fowell Buxton		225
		Conclusions		257
		Bibliography		269
		Index		307

[An] excellent book. Compelling not simply because it is theoretically well informed but because it is exceptionally well researched. The depth and breadth of her engagement with the published and manuscript sources of the era is remarkable. Journal of British Studies

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