Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England

Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 366
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351872119
ISBN-13 : 1351872117
Rating : 4/5 (117 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England by : Rosemary Sweet

Download or read book Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns, remarkably little has focused upon, or even reflected upon the distinctive experience of women in the urban context. Much of what research there is has explored the experience of laboring or impoverished women, or women of the social elite; by contrast, the essays in this collection take up the study of the participation of middling women in urban life. This volume brings into sharper focus the relationship between changes consequent upon urban development and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century. The contributors address such themes as the extent to which to what extent urban change accelerated a redefinition of gender relations; the connections between urban growth, changing definitions of citizenship, and the emergence of the male gendered political subject; the role of women in a literate, consumer and industrializing society; the place of women's networks in the economic, political and social life of the town and the distinctive role played by women in areas such as philanthropy and business; and how the development of urban society in turn inflected contemporary conceputalizations of gender.


Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England Related Books

Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Rosemary Sweet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns,
The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: David Hussey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-03 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to
Gender in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Hannah Barker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the ess
Describing Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Elizabeth Spencer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-12 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century.De
The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Cynthia Aalders
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-16 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to u