Borderline citizens
Subtitle: women, gender and political culture in Britain, 1815-1867
By: by Kathryn Gleadle.
Series: British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monographs; British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph
Publisher: Oxford University Press for the British Academy; British Academy
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780197264492
Subjects: Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Women, gender, and the landscape of politics. Borderline citizens: women and the political process; Women, the public sphere, and collective identities; Women and the family in political culture; Community, authority, and parochial realms; title: Case studies and micro-histories. Women and the 1832 Reform Act; Land and dynastic subjectivity: the public spheres of Mary Ann Gilbert; 'Doing good by wholesale': women, gender, and politics in the family network of Thomas Fowell Buxton.