Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Marion W. Gray
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Imprint: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.562kg
ISBN: 9781571811714
ISBN 10: 1571811710
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 January 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""A wonderfully nuanced study that will change the ways in which the separation of the spheres is studied and understood. It is deeply significant for scholars of German, economic, and gender history alike."" · German History ""Suggestive, meticulous, and closely reasoned work. Densely structured, highly detailed notes; comprehensive bibliography; illustrations."" · Choice ""(A) fascinating and original study."" · The Times Literary Supplement ""An accessible book, beautifully produced."" · Journal of European Area Studies ""Gray's study is a very readable, systematic, provocative, and important history of gender ideology, economic theory, and their inter-connectedness."" · Central European History
A wonderfully nuanced study that will change the ways in which the separation of the spheres is studied and understood. It is deeply significant for scholars of German, economic, and gender history alike. * German History Suggestive, meticulous, and closely reasoned work. Densely structured, highly detailed notes; comprehensive bibliography; illustrations. * CHOICE (A) fascinating and original study. * The Times Literary Supplement An accessible book, beautifully produced. * Journal of European Area Studies Gray's study is a very readable, systematic, provocative, and important history of gender ideology, economic theory, and their inter-connectedness. * Central European History
Author Information
Marion W. Gray received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studied in Göttingen, was a visiting faculty member at Gießen, and has worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen and the Arbeitsgruppe Ostelbische Gutsherrschaft in Potsdam. Formerly a faculty member in History and Women's Studies at Kansas State University, he is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Western Michigan University.
