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Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century

Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century

Smith, Bonnie G.

Paperback

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0691101213
ISBN13: 9780691101217
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Oct 21 1981
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.51
Language: English

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.


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