{"product_id":"the-struggle-for-the-breeches-gender-and-the-making-of-the-british-working-class-volume-23-paperback","title":"The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class Volume 23 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a \"struggle for the breeches.\" The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division of labor, and sexual mores, changes that were intimately intertwined with class politics. By integrating gender into the analysis of class formation, Clark transforms the traditional narrative of working-class history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoing beyond the sterile debate about whether economics or language determines class consciousness, Clark integrates working people's experience with an analysis of radical rhetoric. Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, she contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorkers faced a \"sexual crisis,\" Clark claims, as men and women competed for jobs and struggled over love and power in the family. While some radicals espoused respectability, others might be homophobes, wife-beaters, and tyrants at home; a radical's love of liberty could be coupled with lust for the life of a libertine. Clark shows that in trying to create a working class these radicals closed off the movement to women, instead adopting a conservative rhetoric of domesticity and narrowing their notion of the working class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its analysis of gender and class relations and their political forms, in giving voice to the many who have left only a fleeting trace in the historical record, Clark's study is a pioneering classic. . . . It also has a salience for many of our present social and political dilemmas.--Leonore Davidoff, Editor, \u003ci\u003eGender and History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply researched, scholarly, serious, important. This is a big book that develops a significant new line of inquiry on a classic story in modern history--the making of the English working class. Clark shows in great and persuasive detail how we might read this tale through the lens of gender.\"--Thomas Laqueur, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Clark\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770-1845\u003c\/i\u003e (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 415\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424784113766,"sku":"9780520208834","price":76.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/VHkvdlFxVW5nZGU2NUFhMW5HMkJRUT09.webp?v=1775609431","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-struggle-for-the-breeches-gender-and-the-making-of-the-british-working-class-volume-23-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}