Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Struggle for the BreechesCondition: NewDescription: 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.Author: Anna ClarkCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780520208834Format: PaperbackGenre: HistoryISBN: 9780520208834ISBN-10: 0520208838Item Height: 225mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 590gItem Width: 28mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: University of California PressRelease Date: 04/18/1997Book Series: Studies on the History of Society and CultureSubtitle: Gender and the Making of the British Working ClassTopic: 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
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780520208834
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520208834
ISBN-10: 0520208838
Release Date: 04/18/1997
Release Year: 1997
Subtitle: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
Title: The Struggle for the Breeches
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 415 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Struggle for the Breeches : Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Economic History, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, General, Europe / General
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Anna Clark
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
