THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BREECHES
Written by Anna Clark
Published by University of California Press
in 1995
ISBN: 0520086244
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THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BREECHES
Written by Anna Clark.
Stock no. 1205883
1st.
1995.
Hardback.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Gender And The Making Of The British Working Class. 416 pages. ISBN: 0520086244.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- PART ONE WOMEN AND MEN IN PLEBEIAN CULTURE
- 2 Setting the Stage: Work and Family, 1780-1825
- 3 Men and Women Together and Apart: Plebeian Culture and Communities
- 4 Plebeian Sexual Morality, 1780-1820
- 5 The Struggle for the Breeches: Conflict in Plebeian Marriage
- PART TWO THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
- 6 Sin and Salvation: Men, Women and Faith
- 7 The Struggle over the Gender Division of Labor, 1780-1826
- 8 Manhood and Citizenship: Radical Politics, 1767-1816
- 9 A Wider Vision of Community, 1815-1820
- PART THREE DOMESTICITY AND THE MAKING OF THE WORKING CLASS, 1820-1850
- 10 Sexual Radicalism and the Pressure of Politics
- 11 Equality or Domesticity: The Dilemma for Labor
- 12 Chartism: Domesticity and Politics
- 13 Chartism and the Problem of Women Workers
- 14 A Difficult Ideal: Domesticity in Popular Culture and Practice
- 15 Conclusion
- Appendix on 1841 Glasgow Census Sample
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index