Ladies of the leisure class: the bourgeoises of northern france in the 19th century
Auteur :
Smith, Bonnie G.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691101217
Date de publication :
21 oct. 1981
Dimensions :
20,3 x 12,7 cm
Poids :
340 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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