The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain Since 1800....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
‘I am master here’: Illegitimacy, Masculinity, and Violence in Victorian England....Pages 27-42
‘… the instrument of an animal function’: Marital Rape and Sexual Cruelty in the Divorce Court, 1858–1908....Pages 43-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Irish Orphans and the Politics of Domestic Authority....Pages 61-83
Fatherhood and Family Shame: Masculinity, Welfare and the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century England....Pages 84-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
‘Tiresome trips downstairs’: Middle-Class Domestic Space and Family Relationships in England, 1850–1910....Pages 111-131
Love and Authority in Mid-Twentieth-Century Marriages: Sharing and Caring....Pages 132-154
‘A paradise on earth, a foretaste of heaven’: English Catholic Understandings of Domesticity and Marriage, 1945–1965....Pages 155-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Domestic Servants as Poachers of Print: Reading, Authority and Resistance in Late Victorian Britain....Pages 185-203
Authority, Dependence and Power in Accounts of Twentieth-Century Domestic Service....Pages 204-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Child Care and Neglect: A Comparative Local Study of Late Nineteenth-Century Parental Authority....Pages 223-242
Godfathering: The Politics of Victorian Family Relations....Pages 243-260
“Beating Children is Wrong”: Domestic Life, Psychological Thinking and the Permissive Turn....Pages 261-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-291