Rosemary Sweet and Penelope Lane
Ashgate
Hardback
226
2003
Focusing on the participation of middling women in urban life Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England focuses on the relationship between urban change and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century - a period of rapid transformations in English history. It explores to what extent urban change accelerated a redefinition of gender relations the connections between urban growth changing definitions of citizenship and the emergence of the male gendered political subject the role of women in a literate consumer and industrializing society women's contribution to its development and how that in turn inflected contemporary conceptualizations of gender.
Ashgate
Hardback
226
2003
Focusing on the participation of middling women in urban life Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England focuses on the relationship between urban change and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century - a period of rapid transformations in English history. It explores to what extent urban change accelerated a redefinition of gender relations the connections between urban growth changing definitions of citizenship and the emergence of the male gendered political subject the role of women in a literate consumer and industrializing society women's contribution to its development and how that in turn inflected contemporary conceptualizations of gender.