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Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England - 'On the Town' (Hardcover, New edition)
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Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England - 'On the Town' (Hardcover, New edition)
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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.
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