Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present

by Amanda Vickery

Book Overview

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It shows how rank, property, and inheritance could confer de facto power on privileged women, and how across the centuries the arrogance of birth and title empowered aristocratic women to overawe enfranchised men of lower social standing.

The essays contribute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804742847
• ISBN13: 9780804742849
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"