This collection of essays explores the broad range of influences which have shaped the distribution of authority within British homes and families - religion, commercial advertising, governments, welfare professionals, medical experts, psychologists and the law. INDICE: Introduction: The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800; B.Griffin , L.Delap ; A.Wills - PART I: VIOLENCE AND THE LAW - 'I am Master Here': Illegitimacy, Masculinity, and Violence in Victorian England; G.Frost - 'b&the Instrument of an Animal Function': Marital Rape and Sexual Crueltyin the Divorce Court, 1858-1908; G.Savage - PART II: POVERTY AND THE STATE - Irish Orphans and the Politics of Domestic Authority; A.Clark - Fatherhood andFamily Shame: Masculinity, Welfare and the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth Century England; M.Doolittle - PART III: DOMESTICITY - 'Tiresome Trips Downstairs':Middle-Class Domestic Space and Family Relationships in England, 1850-1910; J.Hamlett - Love and Authority in Mid Twentieth-Century Marriages: Sharing and Caring; S.Szreter ; K.Fisher - 'A Paradise on Earth, a Foretaste of Heaven': English Catholic Understandings of Domesticity and Marriage, 1945-65; A.Harris - PART IV: DOMESTIC SERVICE - Domestic Servants as Poachers of Print: Reading,Authority and Resistance in Late Victorian Britain; M.Beetham - Authority, Dependence and Power in Accounts of Twentieth Century Domestic Service; J.Giles - PART V: PARENTING AND CHILDHOOD - Childcare and Neglect: a Comparative LocalStudy of Late Nineteenth-Century Parental Authority; S.Pooley - Godfathering:The Politics of Victorian Family Relations; V.Sanders - 'Beating Children is Wrong': Domestic life, Psychological Thinking and the Permissive Turn; D.Thom
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57994-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 13/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés