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9780582278264

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

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    9780582278264

  • ISBN10:

    0582278260

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-06-10
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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

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