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A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision of the subject.
| ISBN | 0582278260 | | Pages | 280 | | ISBN13 | 9780582278264
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Pearson Education Limited | | Weight (grammes) | 780 | | Imprint | Longman | | Published in | Harlow | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780582278271 | | Publication date | 10 Jun 1997 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | HQ1075.5.E | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 305.3094209033 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Introduction.Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus Part One: Social reputations 2. Men about town: Representations of foppery and masculinity in early eighteenth-century urban society Philip Carter. 3. The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies? Kimberly Crouch. Part Two: Work and poverty. 4. Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c 1700-1840 Hannah Barker. 5. Women teachers and the expansion of girls schooling in England c. 1760-1820 Susan Skedd. 6. Poor women, the parish and the politics of povertyRichard Connors. Part Three: Politics and the political elite 7. 'That epidemical Madness': women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth centuryElaine Chalus. 8. A politician's politician: Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire and the Whig party Amanda Foreman. Part Four: Periodicals and the printed image 9. Keeping up with the Bon Ton: the tete-a-tete series in the Town and Country Magazine Cindy McCreery. 10. 'A bright pattern to all her sex': representations of women in periodical and newspaper biography Stephen Howard. Further reading. Index.
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