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Ladies of the leisure class: The bourgeoises of northern France in the nineteenth century
Ladies of the leisure class The bourgeoises of northern France in the nineteenth century
Author: Bonnie G Smith
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, fam...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691053301
ISBN-10: 0691053308
Pages: 303
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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