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The Struggle for the Breeches

Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520208838
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for the Breeches written by Anna Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-04-18 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In its analysis of gender and class relations and their political forms, in giving voice to the many who have left only a fleeting trace in the historical record, Clark's study is a pioneering classic. . . . It also has a salience for many of our present social and political dilemmas."—Leonore Davidoff, Editor, Gender and History "Deeply researched, scholarly, serious, important. This is a big book that develops a significant new line of inquiry on a classic story in modern history—the making of the English working class. Clark shows in great and persuasive detail how we might read this tale through the lens of gender."—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex

Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

Author : Susan Kingsley Kent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134755120
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990 written by Susan Kingsley Kent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Through Struggle, the Stars

Author : John J. Lumpkin
Publisher : John J. Lumpkin
ISBN 13 : 1461195446
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Through Struggle, the Stars written by John J. Lumpkin and published by John J. Lumpkin. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2139, a network of artificial wormholes has allowed humanity to reach nearby stars, where nations fiercely compete to settle new colony worlds. War is imminent between Earth's top powers, China and Japan, for reasons that no one entirely understands.Neil Mercer, a freshly commissioned officer in the United States Space Force, is assigned to shepherd a senior spy on a covert mission that risks drawing America into the conflict. In a story featuring high adventure, interstellar intrigue and some of the most scientifically realistic space combat depicted in fiction, Neil and his comrades must face difficult questions about duty, citizenship and national interest as they struggle to discover why the war threatens to engulf every nation on Earth.Recommended for fans of Tom Clancy, Patrick O'Brian, and Robert Heinlein. Also available as an e-book at www.thehumanreach.net."It's all great, good fun ... " -- Don Sakers, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2012"... a fine and fast-paced read, very much recommended." -- Paul T. Vogel, The Midwest Book Review, January 2012

Men on trial

Author : Katie Barclay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152613294X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Men on trial written by Katie Barclay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships.

Unquiet Lives

Author : Joanne Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139439936
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Unquiet Lives written by Joanne Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this 2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws attention to the material life of marriage, which has long been dominated by theories of emotional shifts or fashionable accounts of spouses' gendered, oppositional lives. Thus it challenges preconceptions about authority in the household, by showing the extent to which husbands depended upon their wives' vital economic activities: household management and child care. Not only did this forge co-dependency between spouses, it undermined men's autonomy. The power balance within marriage is further revised by evidence that the sexual double standard was not rigidly applied in everyday life. The book also shows that ideas about adultery and domestic violence evolved in the eighteenth century, influenced by new models of masculinity and femininity.

Master and Servant Law

Author : Christopher Frank
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754668305
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Master and Servant Law written by Christopher Frank and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical narratives that are frequently examined in isolation, this book examines the tactics, rhetoric and consequences of a sustained legal and political campaign by English and Welsh trade unions, Chartists, and a few radical solicitors against the penal sanctions of employment law during the mid-nineteenth century. In so doing, the author draws new conclusions about the development of the English legal system, trade unionism and popular politics of the period.

British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914

Author : S. Cordery
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598048
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914 written by S. Cordery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history. It establishes the central role of the Friendly Societies in the political activism of British workers, changing understandings of masculinity and femininity, the ritualised expression of social tensions and the origins of the welfare state.

Tudor Folk Tales

Author : Dave Tonge
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750966734
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Tudor Folk Tales written by Dave Tonge and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tudor times the ‘common sort’ were no different from us, laughing together, mocking each other and sharing bawdy tales in tavern yards, marketplaces and anywhere else that people came together. These stories were later collected in the cheap print of the period, and professional storyteller Dave Tonge has sought them out to assemble here. Within these pages hide smooth-talking tricksters, lusty knaves, wayward youths and stories of the eternal struggle to wear the breeches in the family, for a sometimes coarse but often comic telling of the everyday ups and downs in Tudor life.

Venereal Disease, Hospitals, and the Urban Poor ; London's "foul Wards," 1600-1800

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Author : Kevin Patrick Siena
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461481
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Venereal Disease, Hospitals, and the Urban Poor ; London's "foul Wards," 1600-1800 written by Kevin Patrick Siena and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on the "foul" and only began to offer care for venereal patients in the Enlightenment. An exploration of hospitals and workhouses shows a much more impressive public health response. London hospitals established "foul wards" at least as early as the mid-sixteenth century. Reconstruction of these wards shows that, far from banning paupers with the pox, hospitals made treating them one of their primary services. Not merely present in hospitals, venereal patients were omnipresent. Yet the "foul" comprised a unique category of patient. The sexual nature of their ailment guaranteed that they would be treated quite differently than all other patients. Class and gender informed patients' experiences in crucial ways. The shameful nature of the disease, and the gendered notion of shame itself, meant that men and women faced quite different circumstances. There emerged a gendered geography of London hospitals as men predominated in fee-charging hospitals, while sick women crowded into workhouses. Patients frequently desired to conceal their infection. This generated innovative services for elite patients who could buy medical privacy by hiring their own doctor. However, the public scrutiny that hospitalization demanded forced poor patients to be creative as they sought access to medical care that they could not afford. Thus, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor offers new insights on patients' experiences of illness and on London's health care system itself. Kevin Siena is Assistant Professor of History at Trent University.

Striking a Light

Author : Louise Raw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441121048
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Striking a Light written by Louise Raw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. Louise Raw gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it. She provides unequivocal evidence to show that the matchwomen greatly influenced the Dock Strike of 1889, which until now was thought to be the key event of new unionism, and repositions them as the mothers of the modern labour movement. Returning to the stories of the women themselves, and by interviewing their relatives today, Raw is able to construct a new history which challenges existing accounts of the strike itself and radically alters the accepted history of the labour movement in Britain.

In a New Light

Author : Abigail Harrison Moore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007569
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book In a New Light written by Abigail Harrison Moore and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories and mines. But while energy studies are beginning to acknowledge the importance of social and historical contexts and to produce more inclusive histories of the unprecedented energy transitions that powered industrialization, women have remained notably absent from these accounts. In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. From their labour in the home, where they managed the adoption of new energy sources, to their work as educators in electrical housecraft and their protests against the effects of industrialization, women took on active roles to influence energy decisions. Together these essays deepen our understanding of the significance of gender in the history of energy, and of energy transitions in the history of women and gender. By foregrounding women's energetic labours and concerns, the authors shed new light on energy use in the past and provide important insights as societies move towards a carbon-neutral future.

The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

Author : Kate Haulman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807869295
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America written by Kate Haulman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux. In the see-and-be-seen port cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, fashion, a form of power and distinction, was conceptually feminized yet pursued by both men and women across class ranks. Haulman shows that elite men and women in these cities relied on fashion to present their status but also attempted to undercut its ability to do so for others. Disdain for others' fashionability was a means of safeguarding social position in cities where the modes of dress were particularly fluid and a way to maintain gender hierarchy in a world in which women's power as consumers was expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order.

Violent Victorians

Author : Rosalind Crone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 184779470X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Violent Victorians written by Rosalind Crone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which these entertainments siphoned off much of the actual violence that had hitherto been expressed in all manner of social and political dealings, thus providing a crucial accompaniment to schemes for the reformation of manners and the taming of the streets, while also serving as a social safety valve and a check on the growing cultural hegemony of the middle class.

All Men and Both Sexes

Author : Hilda L. Smith
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027104604X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book All Men and Both Sexes written by Hilda L. Smith and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Men and Both Sexes explores the use of such universal terms as &"people,&" &"man,&" or &"human&" in early modern England, from the civil war through the Enlightenment. Such language falsely implies inclusion of both men and women when actually it excludes women. Recent scholarship has focused on the Rights of Man doctrine from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution as explanation for women&’s exclusion from citizenship. According to Hilda Smith we need to go back further, to the English Revolution and the more grounded (but equally restricted) values tied to the &"free born Englishman.&" Citing educational treatises, advice literature to young people, guild records, popular periodicals, and parliamentary debates, she demonstrates how the &"male maturation process&" came to define the qualities attached to citizenship and responsible adulthood, which in turn became the basis for modern individualism and liberalism. By the eighteenth century a new discourse of sensibility was describing women as dependent beings outside the state, in a separate sphere and in need of protection. This excluded women from reform debates, forcing them to seek not an extension of a democratic franchise but a specific women&’s suffrage focused on gender difference.

Manhood in Early Modern England

Author : Elizabeth A Foyster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317884264
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Manhood in Early Modern England written by Elizabeth A Foyster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.

Desire

Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415775175
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Desire written by Anna Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire follows changing attitudes toward sexuality through the major turning points of European history. Drawing on a rich array of sources including poetry, novels, pornography and film as well as court records, autobiographies and personal letters, this volume integrates the history of heterosexuality with same-sex desire, andexploresthe emotions of love andlust as well asthe politics of sex and personal experiences.

Women's History, Britain 1700–1850

Author : Hannah Barker
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0203341996
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Women's History, Britain 1700–1850 written by Hannah Barker and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing women’s experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and continuity that were encountered by women of this time. A thorough and well-balanced selection of individual chapters by leading field experts and dynamic new scholars, combine original research with a discussion of current secondary literature, and the contributors examine areas as diverse as the Enlightenment, politics, religion, education, sexuality, family, work, poverty, and consumption. The authors most importantly realise that female historical experience is not generic, and that it can be significantly affected by factors such as social status, location, age, race and religion. Providing a captivating overview of women and their lives, this book is an essential purchase for the study of women’s history, and, providing delightful little gems of knowledge and insight, it will also appeal to any reader with an interest in this fascinating topic.