Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England
by
Professor John Tosh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience...