Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990.

By: Kingsley Kent, SusanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203006672Subject(s): WomenGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990DDC classification: 305.309410903 LOC classification: DA300 -- .K46 1999ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Summary: Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women * how power relationships were established within various gender systems * how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds * class, racial and ethnic considerations * the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities * the civil war * twentieth century suffrage * the world wars * industrialisation * Victorian morality.
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Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women * how power relationships were established within various gender systems * how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds * class, racial and ethnic considerations * the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities * the civil war * twentieth century suffrage * the world wars * industrialisation * Victorian morality.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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