{"product_id":"women-privilege-and-power-british-politics-1750-to-the-present-9780804742849","title":"Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays contribute to an ongoing \"rethinking of the political,\" a consequence in part of the rediscovery of the work of Jürgen Habermas by political and social historians. For Habermas, the public sphere included print media and voluntary associations, and the contributors stress the extent of female engagement in political culture broadly conceived. However, they extend this definition of the public sphere further still to include the \"private\" world of family connections and friendship networks, within which political ideas were debated and new social practices played out.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMany of the essays are inspired by a related effort to reintegrate radical female activists within their political milieu. Although feminist hagiography has accustomed us to see female activists as heroic outsiders rising sui generis from a hostile environment, recent research restores them to their intellectual and familial contexts. Finally, the contributors explore the limits and possibilities of women's citizenship both before and after winning the right to vote. Together, the essays tell a continuous and complex story, redefining political activity and reassessing the turning points of British political history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda Vickery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.12w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804742849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmanda Vickery is Reader in the History of Women at Royal Holloway College, University of London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40141669138547,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":74.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b9d41f58-33bb-4f71-9e0c-78c3d6e207f4.jpg?v=1654521129","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/women-privilege-and-power-british-politics-1750-to-the-present-9780804742849","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}