Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities

by Barker,Hannah

• ISBN13: 9780582278264
• ISBN10: 0582278260
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-06-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii	(1)
List of plates	viii	(1)
List of abbreviations	ix	(2)
Notes on contributors	xi
1. Introduction	1	(28)
Hannah Barker
Elaine Chalus
PART ONE: Social reputations	29	(50)
2. Men about town: representations of foppery and masculinity in early eighteenth-century urban society	31	(27)
Philip Carter
3. The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?	58	(21)
Kimberly Crouch
PART TWO: Work and poverty	79	(70)
4. Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c. 1700-1840	81	(20)
Hannah Barker
5. Women teachers and the expansion of girls' schooling in England, c. 1760-1820	101	(25)
Susan Skedd
6. Poor women, the parish and the politics of poverty	126	(23)
Richard Connors
PART THREE: Politics and the political elite	149	(56)
7. `That epidemical Madness': women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century	151	(28)
Elaine Chalus
8. A politician's politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and the Whig party	179	(26)
Amanda Foreman
PART FOUR: Periodicals and the printed image	205	(45)
9. Keeping up with the Bon Ton: the Tete-a-Tete series in the Town and Country Magazine	207	(23)
Cindy M`Creery
10. `A bright pattern to all her sex': representations of women in periodical and newspaper biography	230	(20)
Stephen Howard
Further reading	250	(11)
Index	261