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Worlds Between


Worlds Between

Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class
1. Aufl.

von: Leonore Davidoff

21,50 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 29.05.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9780745666105
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 288

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This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.
<p>List of Illustrations vii</p> <p>Acknowledgements ix</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>1 Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England 18</p> <p>2 Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society (with Jeanne L’Esperance and Howard Newby) 41</p> <p>3 The Rationalization of Housework 73</p> <p>4 Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Case of Hannah Cullwick and A.J. Munby 103</p> <p>5 The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England 151</p> <p>6 The Role of Gender in the ‘First Industrial Nation’: Farming and the Countryside in England, 1780–1850 180</p> <p>7 Where the Stranger Begins: The Question of Siblings in Historical Analysis 206</p> <p>8 Regarding Some ‘Old Husbands’ Tales’: Public and Private in Feminist History 227</p> <p>PART I: Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World 231</p> <p>PART II: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap: Concepts and their</p> <p>Consequences 249</p>
"No historian in the past twenty years has made a more significant contribution to the history of family and gender than Leonore Davidoff. The two well-known essays on domestic service in Victorian England, reprinted here, show this approach at its most sophisticated and regarding, but there is much else in this rich volume, notably Davidoff's more recent reflections on feminist history." <i>History Today</i> <p> "[A] fine collection ... [which] retain[s] a freshness and originality. This collection brings together some of the most influential essays in feminist history. There is little scope in this review to do justice to the depth and richness of this excellent collection. Her mastery of her subject and material, the detailed evidence she brings to bear, the sheer breadth of her understanding and scholarship, deserves to make this collection a classic as each essay, in its turn, has already become." <i>Reviews in History</i></p>
<p><strong>Leonore Davidoff</strong>, the founding editor of Gender & History, is Research Professor in Social History, University of Essex. She is the author of numerous works in gender history including, with Catherine Hall, <em>Family Fortunes</em>, and <em>The Family Story</em> with Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden. <p><strong>Keith McClelland</strong> teaches history at Middlesex University, London, is co-editor of <em>Gender & History</em>, and is the author with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall of <em>Defining the Victorian Nation</em>.
<i>Worlds Between</i> presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history. <p>Among the topics discussed are the positions of servants and wives in Victorian and Edwardian England; the relationship between home and community in English society; the changing structure of housework; the role of family relationships; the interconnections between class and gender, work and home; and new reflections on the role of the concepts of the <i>public</i> and the <i>private</i> developed through the work of feminist historians.</p> <p>For over two decades, Leonore Davidoff has been at the forefront of the re-examination of femininity and masculinity in history. This volume, which brings together her major writings over this period, including several unpublished essays, will be widely welcomed.</p>

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