ISBN:
9780415623889
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (476 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Eighteenth-century Women : An Anthology
DDC:
305.420941
Keywords:
Women -- History -- 18th century -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Sex role -- History -- 18th century -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Sexual ethics -- History -- 18th century -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Sex role ; History ; 18th century ; Quotations, maxims, etc
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Sexual ethics ; History ; 18th century ; Quotations, maxims, etc
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Women ; History ; 18th century ; Quotations, maxims, etc
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, but also on the literature of the period, its novels, poetry and plays. It examines the role assigned to women in eighteenth-century society and the education thought fitting to perform it. It looks at attitudes to courtship and marriage, chastity and sexual passion. It explores the role of women as wives and mothers, as spinsters
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; General Introduction; Part 1 Ideas of Female Perfection; Introduction; (a) Restraint and Modesty; (b) Submission and Compliance; (c) Piety; (d) Femininity; Part 2 And the Greatest of These Was Chastity; Introduction; (a) Chastity Preserved and Chastity Lost; (b) The Double Standard; (c) One Law for the Rich; (d) Prostitutes and Prostitution; Part 3 Female Education; Introduction; (a) The Intellectual Differences between the Sexes; (b) The Objectives of Female Education; (c) 'Learned Ladies'
Description / Table of Contents:
(d) Accomplishments - Ornamental or Useful(e) Novel-Reading; (f) Schooling for Daughters of the Rich; (g) Schooling for Daughters of the Poor; Part 4 Approaching Marriage; Introduction; (a) Parent-Daughter Relations and the Choice of a Husband; (b) Wooing and Courtship; (c) Motives for Marriage; Part 5 Marriage and After; Introduction; (a) The 'Forlorn State of Matrimony'; (b) A Sacred Institution?; (c) Regular, Clandestine and Irregular Marriage, and the Effects of Hardwicke's Marriage Act; (d) Childbirth; (e) Nursing and Child Care; Part 6 Women's Legal Position: Marriage Law and Custom
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction(a) A Man-Made Law; (b) Married Women and the Law; (c) Separation and Divorce; (d) Customary Alternatives: Desertion and Bigamy; (e) Customary Alternatives: Wife Sale; Part 7 Women without Husbands; Introduction; (a) Spinsters and Dependants; (b) Widows; Part 8 Crime and Punishment; Introduction; (a) Breach of Promise, Seduction and Defamation of Character; (b) Rape; (c) Wife-Beating and Male Tyranny; (d) Confining Women to Mad-Houses - and to Prison; (e) Illegitimacy and Infanticide; (f) Other Crimes and their Punishment; (g) Women in Prison; Part 9 The Female Poor; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
(a) Female Beggars(b) How the Poor Lived and Died; (c) Poor Widows; (d) Making Ends Meet; (e) Unwanted Children; (f) The Settlement Laws; Part 10 Women and Agriculture; Introduction; (a) Farmers' Wives: their Contribution to the Family Income; (b) Their Declining Role; (c) Female Living-in Farm Servants; (d) Wives of Farm Labourers; (e) Gleaning: a Customary Right; (f) Immigrant Women in Agriculture and Market-Gardening around London; (g) Women's Wages in Agriculture; Part 11 Women in Industry and Other Occupations; Introduction; (a) The Woollen Industry; (b) Cotton and Other Textiles
Description / Table of Contents:
(c) Lace and Straw Work(d) Mines and Metal Industries; (e) Other Work for Women; (f) Employment Opportunities; Part 12 Female Domestic Servants; Introduction; (a) Sources of Supply of Female Domestic Servants; (b) Advice to Servants and their Mistresses; (c) Maid or Mistress?; (d) Hiring, Firing and Conditions of Service; Part 13 Women Protest; Introduction; (a) Women Challenge their Allotted Role; (b) Women Claim Equality; (c) Women Act; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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