Read Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

Ellen Malenas Ledoux

4.9/5 (32914 ratings)

Description:Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0813950295

Description: Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century

More Books

Social Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834

Social Reform in Gothic Writing: Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834

Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830 (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)

Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830 (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)

Public Catastrophes, Private Losses (The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century)

Public Catastrophes, Private Losses (The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century)