White, Male and Middle Class

Catherine Hall is the author (with Leonore Davidoff) of Family Fortunes: Men and Women in the English Middle Class 1780-1850.

"...[Hall] successfully teases out the inter-relationships of gender, class and race as separate and interconnected bases of power ... This collection is full of insight intermingled with historical detail." Times Higher Education Supplement"This work begins to set out a new agenda and asks the kind of questions to which students in late twentieth century British multi-cultural society desperately want and need answers." LSE Magazine "This collection of interrelated essays, written in Hall's incisive style, can be wholeheartedly recommended to academics and students alike." History

• Acknowledgements vii1 Feminism and Feminist History 1Part I The Beginnings2 The History of the Housewife 43Part II Gender and Class3 The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology 754 Gender Divisions and Class Formation in the Birmingham Middle Class, 1780–1850 945 The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker: the shop and the family in the Industrial Revolution 1086 The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-class culture in early-nineteenth-centuryEngland 1247 Private Persons versus Public Someones: class, gender and politics in England, 1780–1850 1518 Strains in the ‘Firm of Wife, Children and Friends’: middle-class women and employment inearly-nineteenth-century England 172Part III Race, Ethnicity and Difference9 Missionary Stories: gender and ethnicity in England in the 1830s and 1840s 20510 Competing Masculinities: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and the case of Governor Eyre 255Index 296