Gender in English Society 1650-1850

The Emergence of Separate Spheres?

Robert B. Shoemaker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781138157071
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317894377
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself.

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Place of publication is London unless otherwise stated.

Chapter 1: Introduction

• H.Barker and E.Chalus, eds, Gender in Eighteenth-Century England. Roles, Representations and Responsibilities (1997).
• L.Davidoff and C.Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850 (1987).
• AnthonyFletcher, Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500–1800 (1995).
• OlwenHufton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, Volume 1 (1995).
• MargaretHunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and Family in England, 1680–1780 (1996).
• M.Roper and J.Tosh (eds), Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 1800 (1991).
• JoanScott, ‘Gender: a useful category of historical analysis’, American Historical Review91 (5) (Dec. 1986), pp. 1053–1075.
• AmandaVickery, ‘Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English women’s history’, Historical Journal36 (1993), pp. 383–414.

Chapter 2: Ideas About Gender

• AnneDigby, ‘Women’s biological straitjacket’, Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century, ed. S. Mendus and J. Rendall (1989), pp. 192–220.
• CatherineHall, ‘The early formation of Victorian domestic ideology’, in her White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History (1992), pp. 75–93.
• SusanMorgan, Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Oxford, 1989).
• RuthPerry, ‘Colonizing the breast: sexuality and maternity in eighteenth-century England’, Journal of the History of Sexuality2 (1991), pp. 204–234.
• KatharineRogers, Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England (Brighton, 1982).
• JaneRendall, The Origins of Modern Feminism (Basingstoke, 1985).
• KathrynShevelow, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical (1989).

Chapter 3: Sexuality

• G. J.Barker-Benfield, The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1992).
• EmmaDonoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668–1801 (1993).
• TimHitchcock, English Sexualities, 1700–1800 (1997).
• ThomasLaqueur, Making Sex: The Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990).
• R.Porter and M.Teich, Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes Towards Sexuality (Cambridge, 1994).
• KeithThomas, ‘The double standard’, Journal of the History of Ideas20 (1959) pp. 195–216.
• RandolphTrumbach, ‘Sex, gender and sexual identity in modern culture: male sodomy and female prostitution in enlightenment London’, Journal of the History of Sexuality2 (1991), pp. 186–203.

Chapter 4: Family And Household Life

• ValerieFildes (ed.), Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England (1990).
• John R.Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British Marriages 1600 to the Present (Oxford, 1985).
• A.James Hammerton, Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life (1992).
• RosemaryO’Day, The Family and Family Relationships, 1500–1900: England, France and the United States of America (1994).
• LindaPollock, ‘“Teach her to live under obedience”: the making of women in the upper ranks of early modern England’, Continuity and Change4 (1989), pp. 231–258.
• LawrenceStone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 (1977).
• JohnTosh, ‘Authority and nurture in middle-class fatherhood: the case of early and mid-Victorian England’, Gender and History8 (1996), pp. 48–64.
• RandolphTrumbach, The Rise of the Egalitarian Family: Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-Century England (1978).

Chapter 5: Work

• MaxineBerg, ‘What difference did women’s work make to the Industrial Revolution?’, History Workshop Journal35 (1993), pp. 22–44.
• MaxineBerg, ‘Women’s work, mechanisation, and the early phases of industrialization in England’, in P. Joyce (ed.), Historical Meanings of Work (1987), pp. 64–98.
• PeterEarle, A City Full of People: Men and Women of London 1650–1750 (1994).
• BridgetHill, Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 1989).
• JaneRendall, Women in an Industrializing Society: England 1750–1880 (1990).
• M.Roberts, ‘Images of work and gender in early-modern England’, in L. Charles and L. Duffin (eds), Women and Work in Pre-industrial England (1985), pp. 122–80.
• WallySeccombe, ‘Patriarchy stabilized: the construction of the male breadwinner wage norm in nineteenth-century Britain’, Social History11 (1986), pp. 53–76.
• PamelaSharpe, Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700–1850 (1996).
• DeborahValenze, The First Industrial Woman (Oxford, 1995).

Chapter 6: Religion and Politics

• AnnaClark, The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995).
• PatriciaCrawford, Women and Religion in England, 1500–1720 (1993).
• RuthFrow and EdmundFrow (eds), Political Women 1800–1850 (1989).
• PhyllisMack, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (Berkeley, 1992).
• ClareMidgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780–1870 (1992).
• FrankProchaska, Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century England (Oxford, 1980).
• W. J.Sheils and D.Wood (eds), Women in the Church (Ecclesiastical History Society, Studies in Church History vol. 27, 1990).
• Karlvon den Steinen, ‘The discovery of women in eighteenth-century political life’, in The Women of England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present, ed. BarbaraKanner (Hamden, Conn., 1979), pp. 229–258.
• Malcolm I.Thomis and JenniferGrimmett, Women in Protest 1800–1850 (New York, 1982).
• DeborahValenze, Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England (Princeton, 1985).

Chapter 7: Social and Cultural Life

• JohnBeattie, ‘The criminality of women in eighteenth-century England’, Journal of Social History8 (1975), pp. 80–116.
• AmyLouise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England (1993).
• MalcolmFeeley and DeborahLittle, ‘The vanishing female: the decline of women in the criminal process, 1687–1912’, Law and Society Review25 (1991), pp. 719–757.
• ElaineHobby, Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1649–1688 (1988).
• J.Kermode and G.Walker, (eds) Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England (1994).
• TimMeldrum, ‘A women’s court in London: defamation at the Bishop of London’s Consistory Court, 1700–1745’, London Journal19 (1994), pp. 1–20.
• JanetTodd, The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660–1800 (1989).
• CherylTurner, Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century (1992).
• KarlWesthauser, ‘Friendship and family in early modern England: the sociability of Adam Eyre and Samuel Pepys’, Journal of Social History27 (1994), pp. 517–536.

Index

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Ideas about Gender
• Sexuality
• Family and Household Life
• Work
• Religion and Politics
• Social and Cultural Life
• Conclusion: The Emergence of Separate Spheres?
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Robert B. Shoemaker is a Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield