Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

• 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

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