Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850"Family Fortunes is a major groundbreaking study that will become a classic in its field. I was fascinated by the information it provided and the argument it established about the role of gender in the construction of middle-class values, family life, and property relations. "The book explores how the middle class constructed its own institutions, material culture and values during the industrial revolution, looking at two settings—urban manufacturing Birmingham and rural Essex—both centers of active capitalist development. The use of sources is dazzling: family business records, architectural designs, diaries, wills and trusts, newspapers, prescriptive literature, sermons, manuscript census tracts, the papers of philanthropic societies, popular fiction, and poetry. "Family Fortunes occupies a place beside Mary Ryan's The Cradle of the Middle Class and Suzanne Lebsock's Free Women of Petersburg. It provides scholars with a definitive study of the middle class in England, and facilitates a comparative perspective on the history of middle-class women, property, and the family."—Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University |
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Tartalomjegyzék
Prologue | 13 |
Setting the scene | 36 |
RELIGION AND IDEOLOGY | 71 |
Introduction | 73 |
The one thing needful religion and the middle class | 76 |
Ye are all one in Christ Jesus men women and religion | 107 |
The nursery of virtue domestic ideology and the middle class | 149 |
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND OPPORTUNITY | 193 |
Introduction | 319 |
Our family is a little world family structure and relationships | 321 |
My own fireside the creation of the middleclass home | 357 |
Lofty pine and clinging vine living with gender in the middle class | 397 |
Improving times men women and the public sphere | 416 |
Epilogue | 450 |
Appendices | 455 |
Notes and references | 470 |
Introduction | 195 |
A modest competency men women and property | 198 |
A man must act men and the enterprise | 229 |
The hidden investment women and the enterprise | 272 |
EVERYDAY LIFE GENDER IN ACTION | 317 |
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Bibliográfiai információk
| Cím | Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 Women in Culture and Society |
| Szerzők | Leonore Davidoff, Catherine Hall |
| Munkatárs | Catherine Hall |
| Kiadás | illusztrált, újranyomás |
| Kiadó | University of Chicago Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0226137333, 9780226137339 |
| Terjedelem | 576 oldal |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |