Gender and Power in Britain 16401990 is an original and exciting historyof Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on theinteraction of gen... » 

Gender and Power in Britain 16401990 is an original and exciting historyof Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on theinteraction of gender and power in political social cultural and economiclife.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 and men reacted to the institutions laws customs beliefs andpractices that constituted their various worlds class radical and ethnic considerations the role of the empire in the development of British institutions andidentities the Civil War industrialization Victorian morality twentiethcentury suffrage the world wars secondwave feminism.Students of both history and gender studies will find this incredibly usefulin the pursuit of their degree. «