Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and ClassJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013 M05 29 - 288 pages This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history. |
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... wives and daughters, siblings. Such topics are often seen as peripheral to historicaland sociological interests. Because they are defined as inessential to the real and significant aspects of society, such asclass, political, military ...
... wives and daughters, siblings. Such topics are often seen as peripheral to historicaland sociological interests. Because they are defined as inessential to the real and significant aspects of society, such asclass, political, military ...
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... wives, who were subordinate to their husbands inmany ways, while having considerable authority over their servants and children. The truism that power takes many forms and is more a complicated web than a straightforward causal or ...
... wives, who were subordinate to their husbands inmany ways, while having considerable authority over their servants and children. The truism that power takes many forms and is more a complicated web than a straightforward causal or ...
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... wives, sisters, maiden aunts, nieces and daughters, which ensured that others (the employing classand manymen) couldpossess and'enjoy thebenefits of pursuinggainful occupations and intellectual enrichment, the refinement ofmorals ...
... wives, sisters, maiden aunts, nieces and daughters, which ensured that others (the employing classand manymen) couldpossess and'enjoy thebenefits of pursuinggainful occupations and intellectual enrichment, the refinement ofmorals ...
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... wives by their husbands (see chapter1). But such formulations, although of heuristic valuein making us think about the constituents of power, are too broad. The extent of the status differential between superiors and inferiors is ...
... wives by their husbands (see chapter1). But such formulations, although of heuristic valuein making us think about the constituents of power, are too broad. The extent of the status differential between superiors and inferiors is ...
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... wives. Insurance schemes left them aside. Enfranchisement was not for them forthey had neither domicilenor property oftheir own.Their legal definition and, in significant ways, their real situation was closerto the ageold common law ...
... wives. Insurance schemes left them aside. Enfranchisement was not for them forthey had neither domicilenor property oftheir own.Their legal definition and, in significant ways, their real situation was closerto the ageold common law ...
Contents
Home and Communityin English Society with Jeanne LEsperance and Howard | |
TheRationalization of Housework | |
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Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class Leonore Davidoff No preview available - 1995 |
Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class Leonore Davidoff No preview available - 1995 |
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