This book contributes to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. List of Plates General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN PART 2: FEMINISM AND REPUBLICANISM: 'REPUBLICAN MOTHERHOOD' Republican Possibilities Conservative Reaction PART 3: EVANGELICALISM AND THE POWER OF WOMEN Evangelical Themes Revivalism and the Organisation of Women Millenarianism PART 4: EDUCATING HEARTS AND MINDS The Case for 'Maternal Education' The Training of Teachers The Education of the Majority PART 5: WORK AND ORGANISATION Women's Work in the Early Nineteenth Century: Changes and Continuities Women Workers and Organisation The New Industrial Society: Factory Labour and Domestic Service New Demands and New Jobs PART 6: DOMESTIC QUESTIONS Domestic Myths and Domestic Realities Women and Community Protest Middle-Class Domesticity and its Boundaries Challenges to Domesticity: Individual and Collective PART 7: POLITICS, PHILANTHROPY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE Crowds, Radicalism and Revolution Political Issues: Class, Slavery and Race Moral Reform and Philanthropy PART 8: THE FEMINIST CASE Three Writers Feminist Practice: Defeat and Difficulties in France The United States: Feminism and the Current Reform Great Britain: Feminist Politics and the Politics of Class Conclusion Abbreviations Notes and References Notes to Plates Bibliography Index In exposing the contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender politics in the next century. The Victorians declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be active participants in domestic life.
Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Domesticity still proved problematic in practice, however, because most men were likely to be absent from home for most of the day, and the role of father began to acquire its modern indeterminacy. He finds that the first group of men placed a new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical Christianity.
Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century-illustrated by case studies representing a variety of backgrounds-and then contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions. Book synopsis: Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history.
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