Böcker av Helen Rogers

Based on research investigating the range of women's involvement in early-19th-century popular politics, mid-Victorian reform and the women's movements of the late century, this work explores the interconnections of populism, liberalism and feminism.

This lively collection penetrates the stereotype of the Victorian 'paterfamilias' to reveal intimate and involved, authoritarian and austere fathers. Examining how paternal power was embedded in social institutions, it argues that fatherhood invoked more anxiety and debate than hitherto acknowledged.