Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
1 Feminism and Feminist History 1
Part I The Beginnings
2 The History of the Housewife 43
Part II Gender and Class
3 The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology 75
4 Gender Divisions and Class Formation in the Birmingham Middle Class, 1780–1850 94
5 The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker: the shop and the family in the Industrial Revolution 108
6 The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-class culture in early-nineteenth-century England 124
7 Private Persons versus Public Someones: class, gender and politics in England, 1780–1850 151
8 Strains in the ‘Firm of Wife, Children and Friends’: middle-class women and employment in early-nineteenth-century England 172
Part III Race, Ethnicity and Difference
9 Missionary Stories: gender and ethnicity in England in the 1830s and 1840s 205
10 Competing Masculinities: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and the case of Governor Eyre 255
Index 296
