Leonore Davidoff, Catherine Hall

Family Fortunes (eBook, PDF)

Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Family Fortunes is a seminal text in class and gender history, and its influence in the field continues to be extensive today. Providing critical insight into the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850, it is essential reading for students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 628
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351654166
• Artikelnr.: 54787220

Autorenporträt

Leonore Davidoff (1932-2014) was Emerita Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex and Founding Editor of Gender and History. One of the most influential historians of gender, her numerous publications included Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (1995) and Thicker than Water: Siblings and their Relations (2012).

Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History and Chair of the Centre for the Study of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Recent publications include Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (2012) and with Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington and Rachel Lang, Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction to the third edition Introduction Prologue
Setting the scene Part One Religion and Ideology 1 'The one thing needful':
religion and the middle class 2 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus': men,
women and religion 3 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the
middle class Part Two Economic Structure and Opportunity 4 'A modest
competency': men, women and property 5 'A man must act': men and the
enterprise 6 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise Part Three
Everyday Life: Gender in Action 7 'Our family is a little world': family
structure and relationships 8 'My own fireside': the creation of the
middle-class home 9 'Lofty pine and clinging vine': living with gender in
the middle class 10 'Improving times': men, women and the public sphere
Epilogue Appendices Notes and references Select bibliography People index
Subject index