Product Description

This is a history of Britain from the eartly modern period to the present focusing on gender in society. Several areas are explored and a chronological framework is used to make this an exciting journey through the last few centuries

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #474997 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
"Susan Kingsley Kent's "Gender and Power in Britain, 1640- 1990 marks another milestone in hte effort to integrate the history of women and the history of gender into textbook accounts of historical change. Kent's new account of the last three hundred and fifty years is remarkably successful in placing gender atthe very center of hte history of Britain and the British empire.."
-Joy Dixon Albion (University of British Columbia)
..."accomplishes that often called for but rarely executed synthesis of social and political narratives about the past...In its combination of accessible prose, conceptual sophistication, chronological sweep, thematic scope, and engagement with the latest scholarship, Kent's book is without effective rival."
-Susan Thorne, Duke University

From the Back Cover
Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990 is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines:
the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women
how power relationships were established within these various gender systems
how women acted according to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds
class, racial and ethnic considerations
the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities
the Civil War
industrialization
Victorian morality
twentieth century suffrage
second and third wave feminism