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Despite current debate over the paternal role, fatherhood is a relatively new area of investigation in literary, historical and cultural studies. The contributors to this illustrated, interdisciplinary volume - one of the first extended investigations of paternity in 19th century Britain and its empire - penetrate the stereotype of the Victorian paterfamilias to uncover intimate and involved, authoritarian and austere fathers. Finding surprising precursors of the 'new man' and the 'lone father', Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers provide an essential overview of changing ideologies and practices of fatherhood as the family acquired its distinctively modern form. Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century: - Offers nuanced re-readings of artistic and literary representations of domesticity, investigations of fathering at home and at work, and of legal, political and religious discourses, suggesting that fatherhood generated more anxiety and debate than previously acknowledged. - Explores how traditional conceptions of paternal authority worked to accommodate the 'cult of motherhood'. - Examines how paternal power was embedded in social institutions. - Shows how models of social fatherhood provided powerful men with a means of negotiating their relationship with working-class men and colonized subjects. As these innovative essays demonstrate, the history of fatherhood can illuminate our understanding of class, society and empire as well as of gender and the family. Together they form an indispensable resource for anyone studying Victorian fatherhood as part of a history, literature, art, social or cultural studies course.

The L-shaped room is in a squalid house in Fulham, to which Jane Graham, pregnant and unmarried, retreats from the world. She is drawn back into life by the kindness of her oddly assorted neighbours.

Cross cultural analysis of rural development and technological change processes in agriculture in developing countries, with particular reference to the role of mass media in influencing rural workers behaviour in Colombia - covers social change, rural area leadership, psychological aspects of achievement motivation, educational level, social theory, social research, and the research method thereof, computer simulation in the social sciences, etc. References.

She counts Hollywood superstars and senior politicians among her closest friends. She's walked with wild lions in Africa and through the corridors of power in London's Houses of Parliament. Her philanthropic contributions have helped children in Third World countries learn to read, and exposed ongoing brutal atrocities against endangered big game by a former US President. She's piloted light aircraft, acted as special consultant to the British Government on an eleven billion pound per annum legislative reform, planned covert missions with ex Special Forces commandos into Africa, brought Saddam Hussein's personal pilot together with an ultra orthodox Israeli Rabbi in a peace initiative, dated multi-millionaires, authored the authorised biography of Australia's most private man, the original wild man and wildlife warrior Alby Mangels, dived with sharks, and survived the crazed assault of a "fatal attraction" psycho. Lynn Santer aka "Auntie Lynn" has indeed led an unbelievable life, so much so she rarely talks about it for fear people, well, wouldn't believe her. Never before has she openly spoken about the intimate details, and exposed all the evidence to back up her stories, as she does now to close friend and fellow author, Sandra L. Rogers.