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Ladies of the Leisure Class The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century / Bonnie G. Smith.
Author
Smith, Bonnie G.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton U.P., 1981.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
©1981.
Description
1 online resource (x, 303 pages, 4unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook Package Archive 1927-1999
de Gruyter eBooks Complete
Details
Subject(s)
Middle class
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France
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History
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19th century
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Women
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France
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History
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19th century
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Summary note
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 created their own world, centered on domesticity, family, and religion. To understand these women, the author argues, it is necessary to examine their world on its own terms as a coherent whole.Professor Smith draws on demographic, psychoanalytic, anthropological, linguistic, as well as historical insights and uses a variety of evidence that includes personal interviews, photographs, letters, genealogical records, and traditional archival sources. Part One outlines the transition from mercantile to industrial manufacturing that terminated the relationship between home and business and that separated the sexes according to their respective functions. Part Two concentrates on the lives of the women following their acceptance of an exclusively reproductive function and shows how the interdependence and fusion of household chores, religious values, and social conscience fostered a unified cultural system. Part Three, then, explores the propagation of this domesticity by the convent, as the primary educational system, and by the sentimental novel, as the vehicle most suited for an ideological expression of domestic life.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-296) and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
In English.
Contents
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
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ISBN
0-691-20948-0
OCLC
1147789963
1153559117
Doi
10.1515/9780691209487
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