Ladies of the Leisure Class : : The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century / / Bonnie G. Smith.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Part I. The Historical Context
- 1. Introduction: A World Apart
- 2. The Nord and Its Men
- 3. The Productive Life of Women
- Part II. The Domestic System
- 4. Domesticity: The Rhetoric of Reproduction
- 5. Cosmos: Faith versus Reason
- 6. Society: Charity versus Capitalism
- Part III. Passing the Torch
- 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