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The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights

The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights

Griffin, Ben

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British HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1107015073
ISBN13: 9781107015074
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 12 2012
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This groundbreaking history of Victorian politics, feminism and parliamentary reform challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights and demonstrates how political activity has been shaped by changes in the history of masculinity. From the second half of the nineteenth century Britain's all-male parliament began to transform the legal position of women as it reformed laws that had upheld male authority for centuries. To explain these revolutionary changes, Ben Griffin looks beyond the actions of the women's movement alone and shows how the behaviour and ideologies of male politicians were fundamentally shaped by their gender. He argues that changes to women's rights were not simply the result of changing ideas about women but also changing beliefs about masculinity, religion and the nature of the constitution and, in doing so, demonstrates how gender inequality can be created and reproduced by the state.

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