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

by Ben Griffin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107689686
• ISBN13: 9781107689688
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"