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77%OFFMegan Smitley - The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle–Class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870–1914 - 9780719079665 - 9780719079665
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The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle–Class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870–1914

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Description for The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle–Class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870–1914 Hardback. This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship. Series Editor(s): Sharpe, Pamela; Summerfield, Penny; Abrams, Lynn; Beattie, Cordelia. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 364.

At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as citizens.

This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship. The extent of middle-class women's contribution to civic life is examined through their involvement in reforming and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender in History
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719079665
SKU
9780719079665
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Ref
99-1

About Megan Smitley
Megan Smitley is a former ESRC Post Doctoral Fellow, having attained her PhD in History and Economic and Social History from the University of Glasgow -- .

Reviews for The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle–Class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870–1914
Smitley's concept of a feminine public sphere is an original contribution to the growing body of work that challenges the ideology of separate spheres sharply divided by gender. Although the involvement of women in public action together with their self-representation has been highlighted before, Smitley makes space for women within the public culture of the civic elite, which urban historians, ... Read more

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