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Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880
Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the processes of change have been, and how many continuities have persisted under a façade of modernity. Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of this established text: • explores a wide range of relevant topics including marriage, homosexuality, commercial sex, media representations, censorship, sexually transmitted diseases and sex education • features an entirely new last chapter which brings the narrative right up to the present day • provides fresh insights by bringing together further original research and recent scholarship in the area. Lively and authoritative, this is an essential volume for anyone studying the history of sexual culture in Britain during a period of rapid social change.
A History of Divorce Law
The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years. The legal history of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 is at the heart of the book. The Act had a transformative impact on English law and society by introducing a secular judicial system of civil divorce. This swept aside the old system of divorce that was only obtainable from the House of Lords and inadvertently led to the creation of the modern family justice system. The book argues that only through understanding the legal doctrine in its w...
Family Secrets
What did families hide in the past and why? By delving into the familial dynamics of shame and guilt, Family Secrets investigates the part that families, so often regarded as the agents of repression, have played in the transformation of social mores from the Victorian era to the present day.
Swan Song
A new novel, funny, wise, moving, true, as only Lisa Alther can write ("she had me laughing at 4 in the morning" --Doris Lessing), set on a cruise ship, about a woman, a doctor in charge of the ship's clinic, recovering from the loss of her longtime female lover, a much-admired writer, and coping with the high-wire madcappery of cruise ship life as she reckons with her past and feels her way into the future. Dr. Jessie Drake, in her mid-sixties, following the sudden deaths of her parents and Kat, her partner of twenty years, has fled the Vermont life she has known for decades. In an effort to escape the oppressive constancy of grief, she accepts a job from an old flame from her residency in ...
Descendants of Seth Savage of Berlin, Connecticut
Seth Savage, son of Elisha Savage and Thankful Johnson, was born 8 Sep 1755 in Cromwell, Connecticut. He married Esther Prudence De Wolf, daughter of Simon De Wolf and Esther Strickland, about 1783. They had nine children. Esther died 30 Oct 1815 and is buried in the Wilcox Cemetery in East Berlin, Connecticut. Seth married Lois King, a widow, on 24 Jan 1824. Seth married Anna Post, on 29 Nov 1828. She died 4 Nov 1836. Seth died 25 Oct 1842 and is buried in the Wilcox Cemetery in East Berlin, Connecticut. His descendants have lived in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other areas in the United States.
Objects of Desire
Follows three pieces of eighteenth-century American furniture as they pass through the hands of pickers, dealers, restorers and collectors.
American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
This illustrated guide to American folk artists and their work spans a century of painters from Grandma Moses to Kathy Jakobsen and covers such media as sculpture, pottery, and textile creations.
American Anthem
A celebration of the symbols of liberty, ingenuity, and refuge within American folk art from colonial days to the present is culled from the collection of the American Folk Art Museum.
The Clarion
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