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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, genealog...
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Publisher Description
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
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Propose une étude sur ce que Henri-Jean Martin appelait le petit monde du livre : imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs, petits marchands, revendeurs, colporteurs, etc., dans le cadre géographique des départements actuels du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Montre la mutation qui s'opère pendant le siècle des lumières, de la librairie d'Ancien Régime à la seconde révolution du livre.
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