The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800
By: edited by Lucy Delap, Ben Griffin, Abigail Wills.
Contributors: Delap, Lucy.; Griffin, Ben.; Wills, Abigail.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230579941
Subjects: Home -- Great Britain -- History; Home -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Families -- Great Britain -- History; Marriage -- Great Britain -- History; Fatherhood -- Great Britain -- History; Authority -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Masculinity -- Great Britain -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800 / Ben Griffin, Lucy Delap, Abigail Wills; title: pt. 1. Violence and the law; title: "I am master here" : illegitimacy, masculinity, and violence in Victorian England / Ginger Frost; title: "The instrument of an animal function" : marital rape and sexual cruelty in the divorce court, 1858-1908 / Gail Savage; title: pt. 2. Poverty and the state; title: Irish orphans and the politics of domestic authority / Anna Clark; title: Fatherhood and family shame : masculinity, welfare, and the workhouse in late nineteenth century England / Megan Doolittle; title: pt. 3. Domesticity; title: "Tiresome trips downstairs" : middle-class domestic space and family relationships in England, 1850-1910 / Jane Hamlett; title: Love and authority in mid-twentieth century marriages : sharing and caring / Simon Szreter, Kate Fisher; title: "A paradise on earth, a foretaste of Heaven" : English Catholic understandings of domesticity and marriage, 1945-65 / Alana Harris; title: pt. 4. Domestic service; title: Domestic servants as poachers of print : reading, authority, and resistance in late Victorian Britain / Margaret Beetham; title: Authority, dependence, and power in accounts of twentieth century domestic service / Judy Giles; title: pt. 5. Parenting and childhood; title: Childcare and neglect : a comparative local study of late nineteenth century parental authority / Siân Pooley; title: Godfathering : the politics of Victorian family relations / Valerie Sanders; title: "Beating children is wrong" : domestic life, psychological thinking, and the permissive turn / Deborah Thom.