Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850

ISBN-13: 9781138068810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 604 str.

Leonore Davidoff; Catherine Hall

Opis

Family Fortunes is a seminal text in class and gender history, and its influence in the field continues to be extensive today. Providing critical insight into the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850, it is essential reading for students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social history.

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Acknowledgements Introduction to the third edition Introduction Prologue Setting the scene Part One Religion and Ideology 1 ‘The one thing needful’: religion and the middle class 2 ‘Ye are all one in Christ Jesus’: men, women and religion 3 ‘The nursery of virtue’: domestic ideology and the middle class Part Two Economic Structure and Opportunity 4 ‘A modest competency’: men, women and property 5 ‘A man must act’: men and the enterprise 6 ‘The hidden investment’: women and the enterprise Part Three Everyday Life: Gender in Action 7 ‘Our family is a little world’: family structure and relationships 8 ‘My own fireside’: the creation of the middle-class home 9 ‘Lofty pine and clinging vine’: living with gender in the middle class 10 ‘Improving times’: men, women and the public sphere Epilogue Appendices Notes and references Select bibliography People index Subject index