Beyond Separate Spheres
Title | Beyond Separate Spheres PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalind Rosenberg |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780300030921 |
Examines the lives of female social scientists in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, their difficulties in gaining acceptance, and their pioneering studies of the differences between the sexes
Separate Spheres
Title | Separate Spheres PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Harrison |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013-04-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113624803X |
The British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cannot be understood without appreciating the strength and even the contemporary plausibility of ‘the Antis’, as the opponents of women’s suffrage were called. In a fully documented approach which combines political with social history, he unravels the complex politics, medical, diplomatic and social components of the anti-suffrage mind, and clarifies the Antis’ central commitment to the idea of separate but complementary spheres for the two sexes. Dr Harrison then analyses the history of organised anti-suffragism between 1908 and 1918, and argues that anti-suffragism is important for shedding light on the Edwardian feminists. The Antis also introduce us to important Victorian and Edwardian attitudes which are often forgotten and which differ markedly from the attitudes to women which are now familiar; on the other hand, his concluding chapter – which surveys the period from 1918 to 1978 – claims that many of these attitudes, though less frequently voiced in public, still influence present-day conduct. His book, published originally in 1978, therefore makes an important contribution towards the history of the British women’s movement and towards understanding Britain in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.
Gender in English Society 1650-1850
Title | Gender in English Society 1650-1850 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Shoemaker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317894383 |
A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself.
The Political Poetess
Title | The Political Poetess PDF eBook |
Author | Tricia Lootens |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691170312 |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Slaves, Spheres, Poetess Poetics -- Section 1 Racializing the Poetess: Haunting "Separate Spheres"--CHAPTER ONE Antislavery Afterlives: Changing the Subject / Haunting the Poetess -- CHAPTER TWO "Not Another 'Poetess' ": Feminist Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Poetry, and the Racialization of Suicide -- Section 2 Suspending Spheres: The Violent Structures of Patriotic Pacifism -- CHAPTER THREE Suspending Spheres, Suspending Disbelief: Hegel's Antigone, Craik's Crimea, Woolf's Three Guineas -- CHAPTER FOUR Turning and Burning: Sentimental Criticism, Casabiancas, and the Click of the Cliché -- Section 3 Transatlantic Occasions: Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Poetics at the Limits -- CHAPTER FIVE Teaching Curses, Teaching Nations: Abolition Time and the Recoils of Antislavery Poetics -- CHAPTER SIX Harper's Hearts: "Home Is Never Natural or Safe"--Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index
A Woman's Wage
Title | A Woman's Wage PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Kessler-Harris |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2014-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813158532 |
In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the current debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together these issues trace the many ways in which gendered meaning has been produced, transmitted, and challenged.
Productive Men, Reproductive Women
Title | Productive Men, Reproductive Women PDF eBook |
Author | Marion W. Gray |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781571811714 |
The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Prior to the eighteenth century, cultural norms prescribed active, interdependent economic roles for both women and men. Enlightenment economists transformed these gender paradigms as they postulated a market exchange system directed exclusively by men. By the early nineteenth century, the emerging bourgeois value system affirmed the new civil society and the market place as exclusively male realms. These standards defined women's options largely as marriage and motherhood. Marion W. Gray received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studied in Göttingen, was a visiting faculty member at Gießen, and has worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen and the Arbeitsgruppe Ostelbische Gutsherrschaft in Potsdam. Formerly a faculty member in History and Women's Studies at Kansas State University, he is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Western Michigan University.
Gendered Spaces
Title | Gendered Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne Spain |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780807843574 |
The history of spatial segregation at home and in the workplace and how it reinforces women's inequality.