Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920

10 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 Diverse Ruralities In this collection, multiple ruralities emerge as nuanced spa ...

Introduction 11 cultural representation of women’s fi eld labour in the later nineteenth-century writings of two men, Richard Je ...

12 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 trayal of Hereward the Wake can be read as a straightforward depiction of heroic ...

Introduction 13 of the ways in which rural identities are played out across international move- ments. Leong explores how Little ...

14 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 potential for further study. Th e richly nuanced ruralities and gendered identit ...

15 – 1 WOMEN IN THE FIELD Roger Ebbatson In Th e Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), Friedrich Engels off ered a ...

16 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 the Great Depression. It will be argued that overall the critical situation of t ...

Women in the Field 17 agricultural Great Depression, ‘working women were constructed as a threat to English labouring men’s jobs ...

18 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 inate mixing of the sexes’, and adds laconically, ‘the language of the hay-fi el ...

Women in the Field 19 A similar documentary realism is deployed in the short story, ‘Th e Field Play’ (1883), a tale of rural se ...

20 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 Th is was the girl who had lingered in the lane to help the boy pick watercress, ...

Women in the Field 21 ern accent’, has strayed into the southern landscape ‘with which he had nothing in common, to amaze and to ...

22 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 educated member of the Dorset market-town middle or professional class’ which le ...

Women in the Field 23 character’.^50 It is generally held that women’s fi eld labour noticeably diminished in the later nineteen ...

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25 – 2 ‘BETWEEN TWO CIVILIZATIONS’: GEORGE STURT’S CONSTRUCTIONS OF LOSS AND CHANGE IN VILLAGE LIFE Barry Sloan In Change in t ...

26 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 individualism, the wage economy, the reinforcement of the rights of private prop ...

‘Between Two Civilizations’ 27 Th e passage must be understood in the wider context of the combination of intimate local knowled ...

28 Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 ends Change in the Village by declaring that he ‘would not lift a fi nger, or sa ...

‘Between Two Civilizations’ 29 has simply become an accepted feature of the topography.^15 Th ere is nothing here to compare wit ...