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Ladies of the leisure class : the bourgeoises of northern France in the nineteenth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Bonnie G., 1940-
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1981]
Subjects:
Middle class women > France, Northern > History > 19th century.
Middle class > France, Northern > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a world apart
  • Nord and its men
  • Productive life of women
  • Domesticity: the rhetoric of reproduction
  • Cosmos: faith versus reason
  • Society: charity versus capitalism
  • Education: innocence versus enlightenment
  • Domestic myth
  • Woman's mentality versus liberal consciousness.