ISBN:
9781351654166
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (629 pages)
Ausgabe:
3rd ed
Paralleltitel:
Print version Davidoff, Leonore Family Fortunes : Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850
DDC:
305.550942
Schlagwort(e):
Middle class Case studies History 18th century
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Middle class women Case studies History 18th century
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Middle class Case studies History 19th century
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Middle class women Case studies History 19th century
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the third edition -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Introducing James Luckcock of Birmingham -- What was the English middle class? -- Concepts and methods -- Setting the scene -- Places: -- The town - Birmingham -- The countryside - Essex and Suffolk -- People: -- The family shop - the Cadburys of Birmingham -- The family pen - the Taylors of Essex -- Part One RELIGION AND IDEOLOGY -- Introduction -- 1 'The one thing needful': religion and the middle class -- Church and chapel activity -- The Evangelical revival and serious Christianity -- Church against Dissent -- The religious community -- 2 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus': men, women and religion -- Doctrines on manliness -- Doctrines on femininity -- The ministry -- The minister's wife -- John Angell James: 'bishop' of Birmingham -- Church organization: women voting and women speaking -- Laymen and women -- 3 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the middle class -- The Queen Caroline affair -- Middle-class readers and writers -- William Cowper and Hannah More -- Local writers on separate spheres -- Domestic ideologies of the 1830s and 1840s -- Part Two ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND OPPORTUNITY -- Introduction -- 4 'A modest competency': men, women and property -- Enterprise organization -- Land and capital -- Enterprise finance -- Providing for dependants -- The interdependence of enterprise, family and friends -- The role of marriage in the enterprise -- Training for the enterprise -- Retirement from the enterprise -- 5 'A man must act': men and the enterprise -- Middle-class men and occupations -- The search for a 'sound commercial education' -- Commerce and trade -- Banks and banking -- Manufacture -- Farming -- The professions -- The salaried
Kurzfassung:
6 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise -- Women and property -- Women's contribution to the enterprise -- The education of women and its effects -- Women as teachers -- Women as innkeepers -- Women in trade -- The marginal place of women in the economy -- Women, men and occupation identity -- How did women survive? -- Part Three EVERYDAY LIFE: GENDER IN ACTION -- Introduction -- 7 'Our family is a little world': family structure and relationships -- The role of marriage in family formation -- Fatherhood -- Motherhood -- Children -- Brothers and sisters -- The role of wider kin -- 8 'My own fireside': the creation of the middle-class home -- What was a home? -- The separation of home from work -- The meaning of the garden -- The lay-out of the home -- Running the home -- The question of servants -- 9 'Lofty pine and clinging vine': living with gender in the middle class -- Manner and gentility -- Changing attitudes to sexuality -- Mobility and gender -- Gender and the social occasion -- Gender as appearance -- 10 'Improving times': men, women and the public sphere -- James Bisset of Birmingham -- Voluntary associations -- Philanthropic societies -- Leisure and pleasure -- Men, women and citizenship -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- 1 Three poems by local authors -- 2 Sources for the local study -- 3 Tables -- Notes and references -- Select bibliography -- People index -- Subject index
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