Family Fortunes

Family Fortunes

Author: Leonore Davidoff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1135144052

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Family Fortunes has become a seminal text in class and gender history. Published to wide critical acclaim in 1987, its influence in the field continues to be extensive. It has cast new light on the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850. This revised edition contains a substantial new introduction, placing the original survey in its historiographical context. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall evaluate the readings their text has received and broaden their study by taking into account recent developments and shifts in the field. They apply current perceptions of history to their original project, and see new motives and meanings emerge that reinforce their argument.


After Nature

After Nature

Author: Marilyn Strathern

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-03-12

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780521426800

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After Nature is a timely account of fundamental constructs in English kinship at a moment when advances in reproductive technologies are raising questions about the natural basis of kinship relations.


Unstable Bodies

Unstable Bodies

Author: Jill L. Matus

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780719043482

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While ideas about mutable or ambiguous sexuality provoked fear and fascination, they also served Victorian middle-class ideology by offering 'scientific' ways of constructing racial, class and national identity in terms of the body.


Conduct Literature for Women, Part V, 1830-1900 vol 3

Conduct Literature for Women, Part V, 1830-1900 vol 3

Author: Jacky Eden

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1040287735

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Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation.