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Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth.
Ellen Jordan's treatment of the expansion of middle-class women's work is perhaps the most comprehensive available and is a valuable complement to existing works on the social and economic history of women.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
1999.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in gender and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The question of middle-class women's work; Alternative explanations; Demographic determinates; Economic determinates; The 'linguistic turn'; Agents of change; Argument of the book; The constraints on women's work; The constraints of gentility: the separation of work and home and the breadwinner norm; The family economy; The separation of work and home; The aspiration to gentility; The upper middle class; The lower middle class; The constraints of femininity: the domestic ideology.
- Separate spheresThe Angel in the House; Economic insecurity; What was 'women's work'? The patriarchal household and employers' 'knowledge'; Patriarchal conditions; The established occupations; The new occupations; Changes after 1860; Bluestockings, philanthropists and the religious heterodoxy; Borderlands; Bluestockings and Evangelicals; The bluestocking syllogism and the intellectual woman; 'Something to do' and philanthropy; Consolid.