The 'Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London - Paperback
by Anne Wohlcke
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne WohlckeSeries:Gender in HistoryPublish date:2015-12-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781784992873ISBN-10:1784992879UPC:9781784992873Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Gender Studies, EuropeBook Topic:18th Century, Great BritainSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCAGDNBEHA
The 'Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London
Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were...
Series: Gender in History
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781784992873ISBN-10:1784992879UPC:9781784992873Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Gender Studies, EuropeBook Topic:18th Century, Great BritainSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCAGDNBEHA
Anne Wohlcke is Associate Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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