Ladies of the Leisure Class
, by Smith, Bonnie G.
- ISBN: 9780691101217 | 0691101213
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/1981
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.
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