ABSTRACT
A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision of the subject.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |50 pages
Social reputations
part |69 pages
Work and poverty
part |56 pages
Politics and the political élite
part |45 pages
Periodicals and the punted image