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London's material representations: Women's millinery and economic activity in literary imagination and lived experience, 1720--1785 (England).

机译:伦敦的物质表现形式:文学想象力和生活经验中的妇女的女帽和经济活动,1720--1785(英格兰)。

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This dissertation examines the relationship between literature about female milliners and the "feminine" and milliners' own lived experience and argues that the relationship reflects a malleable rather than fixed concept of women's proper work. By interrogating the way in which discourse operated once it moved beyond the boundaries of the print culture, this dissertation complicates the eighteenth-century genealogy of "separate spheres." Specifically, extant records of milliners' material lives---notably accounts of their consumption patterns in auction catalogues, political and other advertisements by them, and their own personal letters and claims available from the English Courts---suggest that while there were constraints imposed on businesswomen in literature, that this literature was hardly hegemonic in controlling businesswomen's activities.; While an emphatically constrictive discourse about the nature of "polite" economic society attempted to counteract the material existence of businesswomen, the English Court and male creditors accepted matter-of-factly a woman's right to participate in the public economy. This discourse, in political pamphlet literature of the 1720s, in plays of the 1730s, and in the legal rhetoric of various litigants at court in the 1770s, argued that women's involvement and decision-making in economic affairs was dangerous to the re-ordered and modernizing capitol city. In other words, London after the Great Fire and before the French Revolution claimed to be a masculine realm. Despite this discourse of polite masculinity in economic affairs, Georgian England was a transitory world-to borrow a phrase from EP Thompson---and cannot be understood as a seamless link to the nineteenth century. Constructions of "norms" of feminine behavior were constantly contested in the print culture, and women served as active and public historical agents in that contestation. By juxtaposing various moments of discourse against women to the historical milliner, this dissertation complicates the received narrative that argues that the pre-industrial eighteenth century was punctuated by a discourse that both reflected and influenced women's actual lives. Female milliners' own claims and the records they left behind suggest that the rhetoric constructing the bonds of separate spheres was therefore more contentious than previously considered.
机译:本文考察了女性女帽工与“女性”和女帽工自身生活经验之间的关系,并认为这种关系反映了女性适当工作的可塑而非固定的观念。通过质疑话语一旦脱离印刷文化的界限,其话语的运作方式,使18世纪“独立领域”的族谱复杂化。具体来说,现存的关于帽商的物质生活记录-特别是他们在拍卖目录,政治和其他广告中的消费方式说明,以及他们自己的个人来信和可从英国法院获得的诉求-建议,尽管存在限制从文学上对女企业家的要求来看,这种文学在控制女企业家的活动方面几乎没有霸权。尽管对“礼貌”的经济社会的本质进行了严格的限制,试图抵消女企业家的物质存在,但英国法院和男性债权人实际上是在接受妇女参与公共经济的权利。这种话语在1720年代的政治小册子文学,1730年代的戏剧以及1770年代法庭上各种诉讼人的法律言论中都指出,妇女参与经济事务和决策对于重新下令和执行危险。现代化的国会大厦城市。换句话说,大火过后,法国大革命前的伦敦自称是男性世界。尽管在经济事务中有礼貌的男性气概,但格鲁吉亚英格兰还是一个短暂的世界-借用EP汤普森的一句话-不能被理解为与19世纪的无缝联系。女性行为“规范”的建构在印刷文化中不断受到争议,在这场竞赛中,妇女担任了活跃的公共历史代理。通过将针对女性的各种话语权并置为历史上的女帽主,本论文使人们所接受的叙述变得复杂,这些叙述认为,工业化前的十八世纪被一种既能反映又影响妇女的实际生活的话语所打断。女性女帽手的主张及其留下的记录表明,建立不同领域的纽带的言论比以前认为的更具争议性。

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  • 作者

    Sayegh, Sharlene Shalimar.;

  • 作者单位

    University of California, Irvine.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Irvine.;
  • 学科 History European.; History Modern.; Womens Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2004
  • 页码 166 p.
  • 总页数 166
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 欧洲史;现代史(1917年~);社会学;
  • 关键词

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