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Brings together a group of scholars from a diverse range of
disciplines, connecting the subject of loneliness to history,
literature and art Contributes to a growing interest in the history
of emotions and the role of loneliness in past and present Takes an
experiential, as well as institutional, approach to loneliness
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are
conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual
currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions.
They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and
technology, as well as social and spatial constructs. They are also
always gendered and contested spaces. This volume, the last from
the Gender in the European Town (GENETON) project, approaches life
in the European town over time and across class and national
boundaries. Through contextualized case studies, it provides
scholars and students with new research-snapshots-of contemporary
physical and built environments that explores how contemporary
urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over
an important period of modernization.
Placing women's experiences in the context of the major social,
economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and
commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine
Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and
continuity that were encountered by women of this time. A thorough
and well-balanced selection of individual chapters by leading field
experts and dynamic new scholars, combine original research with a
discussion of current secondary literature, and the contributors
examine areas as diverse as the Enlightenment, politics, religion,
education, sexuality, family, work, poverty, and consumption. The
authors most importantly realise that female historical experience
is not generic, and that it can be significantly affected by
factors such as social status, location, age, race and religion.
Providing a captivating overview of women and their lives, this
book is an essential purchase for the study of women's history,
and, providing delightful little gems of knowledge and insight, it
will also appeal to any reader with an interest in this fascinating
topic.
Placing women's experiences in the context of the major social,
economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and
commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine
Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and
continuity that were encountered by women of this time. A thorough
and well-balanced selection of individual chapters by leading field
experts and dynamic new scholars, combine original research with a
discussion of current secondary literature, and the contributors
examine areas as diverse as the Enlightenment, politics, religion,
education, sexuality, family, work, poverty, and consumption. The
authors most importantly realise that female historical experience
is not generic, and that it can be significantly affected by
factors such as social status, location, age, race and religion.
Providing a captivating overview of women and their lives, this
book is an essential purchase for the study of women's history,
and, providing delightful little gems of knowledge and insight, it
will also appeal to any reader with an interest in this fascinating
topic.
A new collection of essays which challenges many existing
assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate
spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically
written for a student market, making detailed research accessible
to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a
comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of
gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century
England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision
of the subject.
A new collection of essays which challenges many existing
assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate
spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically
written for a student market, making detailed research accessible
to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a
comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of
gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century
England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision
of the subject.
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are
conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual
currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions.
They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and
technology, as well as social and spatial constructs. They are also
always gendered and contested spaces. This volume, the last from
the Gender in the European Town (GENETON) project, approaches life
in the European town over time and across class and national
boundaries. Through contextualized case studies, it provides
scholars and students with new research-snapshots-of contemporary
physical and built environments that explores how contemporary
urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over
an important period of modernization.
Based on wide-ranging, original research into political, personal,
and general correspondences across a period of significant social
and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of
politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by
focusing on the political involvement of female members of the
political elite. Elaine Chalus challenges the notion that only
exceptional women were involved in politics, that their
participation was necessarily limited and indirect, and that their
involvement was inevitably declining after the 1784 Westminster
Election. While exceptional women did exist and gender did
condition women's participation, the personal, social, and
particularly the familial nature of eighteenth-century politics
provided more women with a wider variety of opportunities for
involvement than ever before. Women from politically active
families grew up with politics, absorbing its rituals, and their
own involvement extended from politicized socializing up to borough
control and election management. Their participation was often
accepted, expected, or even demanded, depending upon family
traditions, personal abilities, and the demands of political
expediency. Chalus reveals that, although women's involvement in
political life was always potentially more problematic than men's,
given contemporary concerns about the links between sex, politics,
and corruption, their participation was largely unproblematic as
long as their activities could be explained by recourse to a
familial model which depicted their participation as subordinate
and supportive of men's. It was when they came to be seen as the
leading political actors in a cause that they overstepped the mark
and became targets of sexualized criticism. Contemporary critics
worried that politically active women posed a threat to male
polity, but what actually made them threatening was that they
proved that women were not politically incompetent and implicitly
demonstrated that gender was not a reason for political exclusion.
Although the dividing line between acceptable and unacceptable
female political behaviours was sharper from the late eighteenth
century onward, Chalus suggests that women who were willing to work
creatively within the familial model could and did remain
politically active into - and through - the nineteenth century.
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