About the Book:Introduction: The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800; B.Griffin, L.Delap & A.Wills PART I: VIOLENCE AND THE LAW ‘I am Master Here’: Illegitimacy, Masculinity, and Violence in Victorian England; G.Frost ‘…the Instrument of an Animal Function’: Marital Rape and Sexual Cruelty in the Divorce Court, 1858-1908; G.Savage PART II: POVERTY AND THE STATE Irish Orphans and the Politics of Domestic Authority; A.Clark Fatherhood and Family Shame: Masculinity, Welfare and the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth Century England; M.Doolittle PART III: DOMESTICITY ‘Tiresome Trips Downstairs’: Middle-Class Domestic Space and Family Relationships in England, 1850-1910; J.Hamlett Love and Authority in Mid Twentieth-Century Marriages: Sharing and Caring; S.Szreter & K.Fisher ‘A Paradise on Earth, a Foretaste of Heaven’: English Catholic Understandings of Domesticity and Marriage, 1945-65; A.Harris PART IV: DOMESTIC SERVICE Domestic Servants as Poachers of Print: Reading, Authority and Resistance in Late Victorian Britain; M.Beetham Authority, Dependence and Power in Accounts of Twentieth Century Domestic Service; J.Giles PART V: PARENTING AND CHILDHOOD Childcare and Neglect: a Comparative Local Study of Late Nineteenth-Century Parental Authority; S.Pooley Godfathering: The Politics of Victorian Family Relations; V.Sanders ‘Beating Children is Wrong’: Domestic life, Psychological Thinking and the Permissive Turn; D.Thom