Description - Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990 by Susan Kingsley Kent
This history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focuses 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 various gender systems; how women reacted 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; suffrage industrialization; and Victorian morality.
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