White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements 1 Feminism and Feminist History Part I The Beginnings 2 The History of the Housewife Part II Gender and Class 3 The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology 4 Gender Divisions and Class Formation in the Birmingham Middle Class, 1780–1850 5 The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker: the shop and the family in the Industrial Revolution 6 The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-class culture in early-nineteenth-century England 7 Private Persons versus Public Someones: class, gender and politics in England, 1780–1850 8 Strains in the ‘Firm of Wife, Children and Friends’: middle-class women and employment in early-nineteenth-century England Part III Race, Ethnicity and Difference 9 Missionary Stories: gender and ethnicity in England in the 1830s and 1840s 10 Competing Masculinities: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and the case of Governor Eyre Index