State, private life and political change : Conference entitled "Sociology and History" : Selected papers

Papers Presented At The British Sociological Association Conference, Sociology And History, Held At Edinburgh University In March 1988. Edited By Lynn Jamieson And Helen Corr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 ‘No More Heroes’?: Masculinity, Violence and the Civilising Process....Pages 13-30 Sexuality and History Revisited....Pages 31-49 State Organisations and Men’s Sexuality in the Public Domain 1870–1920....Pages 50-72 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 The Second World War and the Welfare State in Britain: Sociological Interpretations of Historical Development....Pages 75-95 Wartime Designs for a Welfare State: Australia and Britain in 1942....Pages 96-118 The Politics of Caring: The Case of Municipal Homemaking in Finland....Pages 119-133 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Women in the Factory: The State and Factory Legislation in Nineteenth-Century Britain....Pages 137-162 Women and the Inebriate Reformatories....Pages 163-185 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 A ‘Social Danger’: The Contested History of Teacher-State Relations....Pages 189-203 Urban Politics and the Rise of the Labour Party, 1919–39....Pages 204-223 Women and Working-Class Politics in Scotland 1900–14....Pages 224-242 Back Matter....Pages 243-247 The subject of this work is the interplay between everyday lives and "the state". It is one of four volumes of essays from the British Sociological Association Conference "Sociology and History" held at Edinburgh University in March 1988.