Amanda Vickery.

Amanda Vickery, ed Women, Priviledge and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the ready (The Making of Modern Freedom.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Pres 2001 Pp xii, 413 $6000 ISBN 0-8047-4284-7

Amanda Vickery's whirl is a welcome contribution to the growing effort among women's historians to "rethink the political" in broad novel terms. Taking issue with the one time reigning--and now battered--ideology of "separate spheres," which characterized women as prisoners of their domestic space (with little power to shape the masculine world of

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