White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and HistoryISBN: 978-0-7456-0956-0
Paperback
320 pages
July 1992, Polity
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What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist
politics and historical practice? What are the connections between
gender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnic
difference played in the construction of Englishness?
Through a series of provocative and richly detailed essays, Catherine Hall explores these questions. She argues that feminism has opened up vital new questions for history and transformed familiar historical narratives. Class can no longer be understood outside of gender, or gender outside of class.
But English identities have also been rooted in imperial power. White, Male and Middle Class explores the ways in which middle-class masculinities were rooted in conceptions of power over dependants - whether black or female.