Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

Gender and Power in Britain is a new history of Britain from the early modern period to the present, focusing on gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life.

Kingsley Kent, Susan

List of figures, Acknowledgments, PART I: The seventeenth century: gender and the crises of authority, 1. Challenging authority at mid-century, 2. Restoring authority, 1660-1715, PART II: The eighteenth century: engendering virtue - politics and morality in the age of commercial capitalism, 3. Challenges to virtue: the economic revolutions, 1690-1780, 4. Manly dominions: war and empire, 1689-179, 5. Feminine encroachments: women, culture, and politics, 1740-89, 6. Domesticating revolution, 1789-1815, PART III: The nineteenth century: "the angel in the house" and her critics - virtue and politics in the age of bourgeois liberalism, 7. The virtues of liberalism: consolidating the domestic ideal, 1815-48, 8. "The Sex": women, work, and politics, 1825-80, 9. Imperial manliness, colonial effeminacy: the gender of empire, 1823-73, 10. Liberalism besieged, masculinity under fire, 1873-1911, PART IV: The twentieth century: crises of conflict, crises of gender, 11. Crises of masculinity: sex and war, 1908-18, 12. Searching for peace: the reconstruction of gender, 1919-39, 13. War, welfare, and postwar "consensus," 1939-63, 14. The end of consensus: "permissiveness" and Mrs Thatcher's reaction, 1963-90, Index