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The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800

Title: The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800 / edited by Lucy Delap, Ben Griffin, and Abigail Wills.
Publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009.

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Description

xi, 291 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This collection of essays explores the broad range of influences which have shaped the distribution of authority within British homes and families--religion, commercial advertising, governments, welfare professionals, medical experts, psychologists, and the law"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800 / Ben Griffin, Lucy Delap, Abigail Wills -- Violence and the law -- "I am master here" : illegitimacy, masculinity, and violence in Victorian England / Ginger Frost -- "The instrument of an animal function" : marital rape and sexual cruelty in the divorce court, 1858-1908 / Gail Savage -- Poverty and the state -- Irish orphans and the politics of domestic authority / Anna Clark -- Fatherhood and family shame : masculinity, welfare and the workhouse in late nineteenth-century England / Megan Doolittle -- Domesticity -- "Tiresome trips downstairs" : middle-class domestic space and family relationships in England, 1850-1910 / Jane Hamlett -- Love and authority in mid-twentieth-century marriages : sharing and caring / Simon Szreter, Kate Fisher -- "A paradise on earth, a foretaste of Heaven" : English Catholic understandings of domesticity and marriage, 1945-65 / Alana Harris -- Domestic service -- Domestic servants as poachers of print : reading, authority and resistance in late Victorian Britain / Margaret Beetham -- Authority, dependence and power in accounts of twentieth-century domestic service / Judy Giles -- Parenting and childhood -- Child care and neglect : a comparative local study of late nineteenth-century parental authority / Siân Pooley -- Godfathering : the politics of Victorian family relations / Valerie Sanders -- "Beating children is wrong" : domestic life, psychological thinking and the permissive turn / Deborah Thom.

ISBN

9780230579941
0230579949

LCCN

2009041349

OCLC

ocn318873066
318873066
SCSB-1530150

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Princeton University Library