Machine generated contents note: 1.Feminism and Feminist History -- pt. I The Beginnings -- 2.The History of the Housewife -- pt. II Gender and Class -- 3.The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology -- 4.Gender Divisions and Class Formation in the Birmingham Middle Class, 1780--1850 -- 5.The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker: the shop and the family in the Industrial Revolution -- 6.The Tale of Samuel and Jemima: gender and working-class culture in early-nineteenth-century England -- 7.Private Persons versus Public Someones: class, gender and politics in England, 1780--1850 -- 8.Strains in the ̀Firm of Wife, Children and Friends': middle-class women and employment in early-nineteenth-century England -- pt. III Race, Ethnicity and Difference -- 9.Missionary Stories: gender and ethnicity in England in the 1830s and 1840s -- 10.Competing Masculinities: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and the case of Governor Eyre