Struggle for the Breeches Gender and the Making of the British Working Class

Name: Struggle for the Breeches Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
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ISBN: 9780520208834

ISBN-10: 0520208838

ISBN-13: 9780520208834

Edition: 1996

Authors: Anna Clark

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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…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/18/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 415
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.87" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English