<EM>Gender and Power in Britain</EM> is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines:<BR>* the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women<BR>* how power relationships were established within various gender systems<BR>* how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds<BR>* class, racial and ethnic considerations<BR>* the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities<BR>* the civil war<BR>* twentieth century suffrage<BR>* the world wars * industrialisation<BR>* Victorian morality.