Ladies of the leisure class : the bourgeoises of northern France in the 19th century /
In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive experience. Out of this, she suggests, they creat...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[1981]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- 1. Introduction: A World Apart
- 2. The Nord and Its Men
- 3. The Productive Life of Women
- 4. Domesticity: The Rhetoric of Reproduction
- 5. Cosmos: Faith versus Reason
- 6. Society: Charity versus Capitalism
- 7. Education: Innocence versus Enlightenment
- 8. The Domestic Myth
- 9. Woman's Mentality versus Liberal Consciousness
- Appendix Tables
- Acknowledgments and Sources
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index