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9781571811721

Productive Men, Reproductive Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9781571811721

  • ISBN10:

    1571811729

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Marion W. Gray is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Kansas State University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Gender Norms and the Language of Economics 1(24)
The Historical Context: Hierarchy, Patriarchy, and Community (1600-1800)
25(24)
The Household as Economy: Dominance, Subordination, and Interdependence in Seventeenth-Century Economic Thought (1600-1720)
49(40)
The New Economics of Cameralism: Redefining the Male World by Separating It from the Household (1720-1780)
89(31)
The Enlightenment: Civil Society and Middle-Class Males as the Arbiters of Social Norms (1750-1790)
120(25)
The Enlightenment and the "Character of the Sexes" (1750-1790)
145(28)
The Household Ideal Caught in a Changing World (1750-1790)
173(41)
The Primacy of the Public Sphere: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon (1790-1815)
214(44)
"Scientific Agriculture" and the Sexual Division of Labor (1810-1830)
258(46)
Conclusion "Every Man is King in His House"
297(7)
Works Cited 304(57)
Index 361

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