White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History

Acknowledgements vii

1 Feminism and Feminist History 1

Part I The Beginnings

2 The History of the Housewife 43

Part II Gender and Class

3 The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology 75

4 Gender Divisions and Class Formation in the Birmingham Middle Class, 1780–1850 94

5 The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker: the shop and the family in the Industrial Revolution 108

6 The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-class culture in early-nineteenth-century
England 124

7 Private Persons versus Public Someones: class, gender and politics in England, 1780–1850 151

8 Strains in the ‘Firm of Wife, Children and Friends’: middle-class women and employment in
early-nineteenth-century England 172

Part III Race, Ethnicity and Difference

9 Missionary Stories: gender and ethnicity in England in the 1830s and 1840s 205

10 Competing Masculinities: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and the case of Governor Eyre 255

Index 296