Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition
by Amanda Vickery (Editor)
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This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It shows how rank, property, and inheritance could confer de facto power on privileged women, and how across the centuries the arrogance of birth and title empowered aristocratic women to overawe enfranchised men of lower social standing.
The essays contribute to an ongoing "rethinking of the political," a consequence in part of the rediscovery of the work of Jurgen Habermas by political and social historians. For Habermas, the public sphere included print media and voluntary associations, and the contributors stress the extent of female engagement in political culture broadly conceived. However, they extend this definition of the public sphere further still to include the "private" world of family connections and friendship networks, within which political ideas were debated and new social practices played out.
Many of the essays are inspired by a related effort to reintegrate radical female activists within their political milieu. Although feminist hagiography has accustomed us to see female activists as heroic outsiders rising sui generis from a hostile environment, recent research restores them to their intellectual and familial contexts. Finally, the contributors explore the limits and possibilities of women's citizenship both before and after winning the right to vote. Together, the essays tell a continuous and complex story, redefining political activity and reassessing the turning points of British political history.
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- Title Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present
- Author Amanda Vickery (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, USA
- Date 2002-05-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780804742849 / 0804742847
- Weight 1.53 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 9.52 x 6.12 x 1.13 in (24.18 x 15.54 x 2.87 cm)
- Reading level 1680
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Politics and government, Women in politics - Great Britain - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001020017
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.208
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2001, Page 133
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