The Historical Journal

Table of Contents - December 2011 - Volume 54, Issue 04  

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Review Articles

BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE: GENDER, DOMESTICITY, AND AUTHORITY IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

SIMON MORGANa1

a1 LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Women against the vote: female anti-suffrage in Britain. By Julia Bush. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. x+340. ISBN 13 978-0-19-924877-3. £45·00.

The politics of domestic authority in Britain since 1800. Edited by Lucy Delap, Ben Griffin, and Abigail Wills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xi+211. ISBN 13 978-0-230-57994-1. £58·00.

Borderline citizens: women, gender and political culture in Britain, 1815–1867. By Kathryn Gleadle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x+321. ISBN 978-0-19-726449-2. £55·00.

Public men: masculinity and politics in modern Britain. Edited by Matthew McCormack. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xii+208. ISBN 978-0-230-00763-5. £60·00.

Feminism and empire: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790–1865. By Clare Midgley. London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. x+206. ISBN 13 978-0-415-25015-3. £19·99.

Labours lost: domestic service and the making of modern England. By Carolyn Steedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+410. ISBN 13 978-0-521-73623-7. £21·99.

The civilising mission and the English middle class, 1792–1850. By Alison Twells. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xiv+353. ISBN 13 978-1-4039-2040-9. £62·00.