State, Private Life and Political Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
‘No More Heroes’?: Masculinity, Violence and the Civilising Process....Pages 13-30
Sexuality and History Revisited....Pages 31-49
State Organisations and Men’s Sexuality in the Public Domain 1870–1920....Pages 50-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The Second World War and the Welfare State in Britain: Sociological Interpretations of Historical Development....Pages 75-95
Wartime Designs for a Welfare State: Australia and Britain in 1942....Pages 96-118
The Politics of Caring: The Case of Municipal Homemaking in Finland....Pages 119-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Women in the Factory: The State and Factory Legislation in Nineteenth-Century Britain....Pages 137-162
Women and the Inebriate Reformatories....Pages 163-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
A ‘Social Danger’: The Contested History of Teacher-State Relations....Pages 189-203
Urban Politics and the Rise of the Labour Party, 1919–39....Pages 204-223
Women and Working-Class Politics in Scotland 1900–14....Pages 224-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-247