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Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354358705
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of “discovery” and exploration – fauna and flora, geography, climate – the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes – including the “Mutiny” of 1857-58 – and the “civilisational mission”. Volume 3 Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure shifts the focus to the English home and social life. Domesticity, often a fraught exercise for the 'memsahib', carried on with the assistance of a retinue of Indian servants, meant tackling corruption, inefficiency and the all-pervasive social hierarchy of the colonised. Advice books were produced to aid the memsahib for this purpose. The Steel-Gardiner guide to housekeeping, which was a bestseller in its day and is excerpted here, was indispensable in the length and breadth of its coverage, from the care of children to the right wages for the servants. Diver's text, likewise, also demonstrates how running the home was difficult and has a resonance with the (male) dominion of running the Empire. These texts exhorted the English woman to practice thrift, control and managerial skills, to be aware of the natives' penchant for dirt and indolence and the caste-community dynamics that inform the servant-class.

Ladies of the Leisure Class

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209480
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Leisure Class written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, family, and religion. To understand these women, the author argues, it is necessary to examine their world on its own terms as a coherent whole. Professor Smith draws on demographic, psychoanalytic, anthropological, linguistic, as well as historical insights and uses a variety of evidence that includes personal interviews, photographs, letters, genealogical records, and traditional archival sources. Part One outlines the transition from mercantile to industrial manufacturing that terminated the relationship between home and business and that separated the sexes according to their respective functions. Part Two concentrates on the lives of the women following their acceptance of an exclusively reproductive function and shows how the interdependence and fusion of household chores, religious values, and social conscience fostered a unified cultural system. Part Three, then, explores the propagation of this domesticity by the convent, as the primary educational system, and by the sentimental novel, as the vehicle most suited for an ideological expression of domestic life.

The Social Meaning of Extra Money

Author : Sidonie Naulin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030182975
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Social Meaning of Extra Money written by Sidonie Naulin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them? How and why do people commodify their free time? This book explores the marketization of blogging, cooking, craftwork, gardening, knitting, selling second-hand items, sexcamming, and more generally the economic use of free time. It outlines how the development of web platforms, the current economic context and post-Fordist values can account for this extension of market and labor. Drawing on a range of interviews, ethnographic observations, and quantitative surveys, the contributors question the empowering effects of commodification, with a specific focus on how gender and class inequalities affect the social meanings of extra money. Ultimately, the collective findings demonstrate how commodification pervades even the most mundane social activities. This research will be invaluable to scholars and students with a focus on gender and digital sociology, the sociology of work and labour, and the marketization of leisure.

Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel

Author : Monica F. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521591414
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel written by Monica F. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. By exploring how novels cast the Victorian conception of female morality into the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism, Cohen traces the ways in which women sought identity and privilege within a professionalised culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology.

The Social Life of Books

Author : Abigail Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300208294
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Books written by Abigail Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Home Improvements -- 1. How to Read -- 2. Reading and Sociability -- 3. Using Books -- 4. Access to Reading -- 5. Verse at Home -- 6. Drama and Recital -- 7. Fictional Worlds -- 8. Piety and Knowledge -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

American Domesticity

Author : Kathleen Anne McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352726
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book American Domesticity written by Kathleen Anne McHugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cult of domesticity to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing woman to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that downplay race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticity and domestic labor over the last two centuries in didactic, cinematic, and feminist texts. While the domestic is usually conceived of as the antithesis of the public, economical, and political, Kathleen McHugh demonstrates how domestic discourse established the terms within which the most crucial national issues--the market economy, universal white male suffrage, slavery, the construction of racial difference, consumerism, spectatorship, desire, and even feminism--were conceived, assimilated, and understood. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the book investigates the historical roots of domestic labors invisibility in widely circulated didactic housekeeping manuals written by Lydia Child, Catherine Beecher, Mary Pattison, and Christine Frederick. It then considers how pedagogical discourses became entertainment discourses, their focus shifting from the silent era of film to the twilight of the classical period. The book concludes with an examination of the return of a pedagogical impulse within feminist film production concerning domesticity, comparing it to the concurrent rise of feminist film theory in the academy. Looking at this wide range of print and film texts, McHugh traces the outlines of a discourse of domesticity that claims to be private and universal but instead brokers difference within the public sphere.

Media Worlds

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520224483
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Media Worlds written by Faye D. Ginsburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection maps and motivates the anthropological voice in media studies by locating the media in worlds of practice, sentiment, debate and dissent. Using such vivid examples as the image management of the Dalai Lama and the social organization of Nigerian cinema theatres, the authors remind us that media machineries are not more magical than the social worlds they inhabit and project. [Back cover].

The Social Construction of American Realism

Author : Amy Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226424308
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Social Construction of American Realism written by Amy Kaplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and controlling the social upheavals of early modern capitalism, particularly class conflict and the development of mass culture. Brilliant analyses of works by Howells, Wharton, and Dreiser illuminate the narrative process by which realism constructs a social world of conflict and change. "[Kaplan] offers some enthralling readings of major novels by Howells, Wharton, and Dreiser. It is a book which should be read by anyone interested in the American novel."—Tony Tanner, Modern Language Review "Kaplan has made an important contribution to our understanding of American realism. This is a book that deserves wide attention."—June Howard, American Literature

A Consuming Faith

Author : Susan Curtis
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826213624
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book A Consuming Faith written by Susan Curtis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Consuming Faith, Susan Curtis analyzes the startling convergence of two events previously treated independently: the emergence of a modern consumer-oriented culture and the rise of the social gospel movement. By examining the lives and works of individuals who identified themselves as social gospelers, rather than just groups or individuals who fit a particular definition, Curtis is able to capture the very fluidity of the term social gospel as it was used. In addition to exploring the time in which the movement took shape, Curtis provides biographical sketches of traditional figures involved in various aspects of the social gospel movement such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Washington Gladden, and Josiah Strong alongside those of less-prominent figures like Charles Jefferson, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Charles Macfarland. Going beyond their roles in the movement, Curtis shows them to be sons and daughters, husbands and wives, and workers and citizens who experienced the vast changes in their world wrought by industrialization and class conflict even as they sought to define a meaningful religious life. The result of their quest was a redefinition of Protestantism that contributed to an evolving public discourse and culture. This groundbreaking study, now with a new preface by Curtis, provides an illuminating look at culture and religion as interdependent influences, and treats religious life as an integral part of American culture--not a sacred world apart from the secular. A Consuming Faith will be of interest to anyone who strives to understand not only the social and cultural history of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also the origins of modern America.

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

Author : John Evelev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192647326
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874 written by John Evelev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history of mid-nineteenth century America. It argues that the picturesque was not simply a landscape aesthetic, but also a discipline of seeing and imaginatively shaping the natural that was widely embraced by bourgeois Americans to transform the national landscape in their own image. Through the picturesque, mid-century bourgeois Americans remade rural spaces into tourist scenery, celebrated the city streets as spaces of cultural diversity, created new urban public parks, and made suburban domesticity a national ideal. This picturesque transformation was promoted in a variety of popular literary genres, all focused on landscape description and all of which trained readers into the protocols of picturesque visual discipline as social reform. Many of these genres have since been dubbed "minor" or have been forgotten by our literary history, but the ranks of the writers of this picturesque literature include everyone from the most canonical (Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe), to major authors of the period now less familiar (such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Margaret Fuller), to those now completely forgotten. Individual chapters of the book link picturesque literary genres to the spaces that the genres helped to transform and, in the process, create what is recognizably our modern American landscape.

Her Work and His

Author : Claire Toynbee
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864732842
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Her Work and His written by Claire Toynbee and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on over 100 oral histories from men and women who were children in the first three decades of the century, this book explores the work done in those years by men, women and children as members of families and communities. It considers work done for pay and free. Extracts from interviews are used to illustrate various family patterns represented, and the text makes use of historical and demographic literature on family and kinship in the past in New Zealand and elsewhere. A bibliography and an index are provided.

Tinsley's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Homeward Bound

Author : Emily Matchar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145166544X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Homeward Bound written by Emily Matchar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the societal impact of intelligent, high-achieving women who are honing traditional homemaking skills traces emerging trends in sophisticated crafting, cooking and farming that are reshaping the roles of women.

Domestic Cultures

Author : Hollows, Joanne
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335222536
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Cultures written by Hollows, Joanne and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging text challenges a range of ideas about domestic culture. It examines how the meanings of domestic life are produced across a range of discourses and practices, from architecture, lifestyle media and advertising to home decoration, cooking and watching television.

Beyond the Household

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731548
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Household written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal—and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her pedestal as the end—rather than the beginning—of her story, she shows how gentility, republican political ideals, and evangelical religion successively altered southern gender ideals and thereby forced women to reshape their public roles. Kierner concludes that southern women continually renegotiated their access to the public sphere—and that even the emergence of the frail and submissive lady as icon did not obliterate women's public role.Kierner draws on a strong overall command of early American and women's history and adds to it research in letters, diaries, newspapers, secular and religious periodicals, travelers' accounts, etiquette manuals, and cookery books. Focusing on the issues of work, education, and access to the public sphere, she explores the evolution of southern gender ideals in an important transitional era. Specifically, she asks what kinds of changes occurred in women's relation to the public sphere from 1700 to 1835. In answering this major question, she makes important links and comparisons, across both time and region, and creates a chronology of social and intellectual change that addresses many key questions in the history of women, the South, and early America.

The Cultural Turn

Author : David Chaney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134850891
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Turn written by David Chaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the "turn to culture" and the lessons to be drawn from this movement. The author also provides an elegant and informative guide to the importance of culture in the postmodern world. A key work in understanding culture.

Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019515603X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth written by Carol J. Singley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The House of Mirth' is perhaps Edith Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel. This casebook collects critical essays addressing a broad spectrum of topics and utilizing a range of critical and theoretical approaches.