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BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE: GENDER, DOMESTICITY, AND AUTHORITY IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2011

SIMON MORGAN
SIMON MORGAN
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LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
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The Historical Journal , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 1197 - 1210
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18 E.g. ‘May meetings’, Christian Lady's Magazine, 1 (Jan. – June 1834).

19 McCormack's two introductory chapters barely engage with the extensive literature on women and the public sphere.

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27 Gleadle, Borderline citizens, p. 108.

28 McCormack writes specifically against Connell's notion of hegemonic masculinity in Masculinities.

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34 Ibid., p. 254.

35 Ibid., p. 282.

36 Delap, Griffin, and Wills, ‘Introduction’, in The politics of domestic authority, pp. 1, 4.

37 Ibid., p. 8.