Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

<p><em>Gender and Power in Britain</em> is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political social cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework the book examines:<br>* the roles responsibilities and identities of men and women<br>* how power relationships were established within various gender systems<br>* how women and men reacted to the institutions laws customs beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds<br>* class racial and ethnic considerations<br>* the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities<br>* the civil war<br>* twentieth century suffrage<br>* the world wars * industrialisation<br>* Victorian morality.</p>