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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Bonnie G., 1940- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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