Department or Program
History
Abstract
The mid-to-late Victorian period witnessed a surge in political and legislative efforts to further include groups and identities within the bounds of the British constitution. As these efforts developed alongside complex liberal alliances however, exclusionary discourses of gender became important markers of acceptable political identity. Focusing primarily on the function of masculinity in the development of legislation during Gladstone's first ministry, this project seeks to illuminate some of the contradictions defining of a Liberalism tense between the revolutionizing effects of industrialization and particularly entrenched Victorian conceptions of normative masculine behavior. In tracing the significant impact of these gendered discourses through Britain's most prolific legislative period, a much clearer and accurate image of social and political citizenship emerges.
Level of Access
Open Access
First Advisor
Shaw, Caroline
Date of Graduation
5-2018
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Recommended Citation
Hernandez Sifontes, Cristopher David, ""Woe to England's Manhood": Masculinity, Class and Liberalism in Britain, 1855-1874" (2018). Honors Theses. 230.
https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/230
Number of Pages
130
Components of Thesis
1 PDF File
Open Access
Available to all.