Studies on the History of Society and Culture Tapa dura - 1995

xv+416 pages with illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In The Struggle for the Breeches, Clark maintains that changes in British society during the Industrial Revolution affected relationships between men and women. She examines a variety of aspects of society in relation to the new classes formed as a result of urbanization and industrialization, including work settings, home life, popular culture, politics, and sexual identity. The Struggle for the Breeches is "abounding with vivid examples and surprising detail," observed Deborah Valenze in the American Historical Review. Valenze added that Clark's "accounts are framed in terms of the gender conflict that characterized work and organizations within the working class," and that "her revision of the forging of a self-conscious working class arrives at profound, sometimes unsettling… Leer más

Published by University of California Press, 1995. 1st edition.. Hardback. Fine/Nearly Fine. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Gender And The Making Of The British Working Class. 416 pages.

California: University of California Press. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to fep. 1995. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 416pp. .

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press , 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xv, 416 pages : illustrations. Subject: Working class Great Britain History. Sex role Great Britain History. Social conditions. Working class.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of California Press, 1995-04-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!