Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Struggle for the BreechesCondition: NewEAN: 9780520208834ISBN: 9780520208834Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/18/1997Item Height: 225mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 590gAuthor: Anna ClarkLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Gender and the Making of the British Working ClassISBN-10: 0520208838Description: Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division of labor, and sexual mores, changes that were intimately intertwined with class politics. By integrating gender into the analysis of class formation, Clark transforms the traditional narrative of working-class history. Going beyond the sterile debate about whether economics or language determines class consciousness, Clark integrates working people's experience with an analysis of radical rhetoric. Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, she contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies. Workers faced a 'sexual crisis,' Clark claims, as men and women competed for jobs and struggled over love and power in the family.While some radicals espoused respectability, others might be homophobes, wife-beaters, and tyrants at home; a radical's love of liberty could be coupled with lust for the life of a libertine. Clark shows that in trying to create a working class these radicals closed off the movement to women, instead adopting a conservative rhetoric of domesticity and narrowing their notion of the working class.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryBook Series: Studies on the History of Society and CultureTopic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 1997 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Struggle for the Breeches
Title: The Struggle for the Breeches
EAN: 9780520208834
ISBN: 9780520208834
Release Date: 04/18/1997
Release Year: 1997
Subtitle: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
ISBN-10: 0520208838
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 415 Pages
Publication Name: Struggle for the Breeches : Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Economic History, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, General, Europe / General
Publication Year: 1997
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Anna Clark
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
