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Winner of British Council Prize in the Humanities of the North American Conference on British Studies

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

PART ONE WOMEN AND MEN IN PLEBEIAN CULTURE
2 Setting the Stage: Work and Family,
1780-1825
3 Men and Women Together and Apart:
Plebeian Culture and Communities
4 Plebeian Sexual Morality, 1780-1820
5 The Struggle for the Breeches: Conflict in
Plebeian Marriage

PART TWO THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
6 Sin and Salvation: Men, Women, and Faith
7 The Struggle over the Gender Division of
Labor, 1780-1826
8 Manhood and Citizenship: Radical Politics,
1767-1816
9 A Wider Vision of Community, 1815-1820

PART THREE DOMESTICITY AND THE MAKING OF
THE WORKING CLASS, 1820-1850
10 Sexual Radicalism and the Pressure of Politics
11 Equality or Domesticity: the Dilemma
for Labor
12 Chartism: Domesticity and Politics
13 Chartism and the Problem of Women Workers
14 A Difficult Ideal: Domesticity in Popular
Culture and Practice
15 Conclusion

Appendix on 1841 Glasgow Census Sample
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Anna Clark is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of Women's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770-1845 (1987).