Class is one of the most frequently invoked analytic categories used in the study of British history. Yet, as recognized by scholar
Eileen Boris, "class as a category of analysis is pervasive, but taken for granted instead of problematized in the field as a whole." This is
perhaps especially true in the way that class intersects with questions of gender. Works such as Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall's, Family
Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 and Anna Clark's The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the
British Working Class have illustrated how English women experienced class differently from their male counterparts in both the Middle and
Working classes within this period. However, there is no equivalent body of study which seeks to explore the disparity in privilege and agency
amongst upper-class women. While elite men were ensured certain standards of agency and privilege, defended by legal systems and patriarchal
societal expectations; women within the upper-classes enjoyed no such guarantees or protections. The 'Learned Lady' paradigm is a strategy
designed to better recognize the way one kind of upper-class woman subverted gendered norms of behavior to exercise agency and privilege,
without sacrificing her social respectability. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Arts. / Spring Semester 2018. / April 18, 2018. / Agency, Class, Economic Independence, England, Gender, History / Includes bibliographical references. / Charles Upchurch, Professor Directing Thesis; George Williamson, Committee Member; Suzanne Sinke, Committee
Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_661198 |
| Contributors | Kent, Kimberly A. (author), Upchurch, Charles, 1969- (professor directing thesis), Williamson, George S. (committee member), Sinke, Suzanne M. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of History (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, master thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (126 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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