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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Canada --- Motherhood --- Gender identity --- Middle class women --- Working class women --- Psychological aspects --- Attitudes --- -Middle class women --- -Motherhood --- -Working class women --- -Women --- Maternity --- Mothers --- Parenthood --- Women --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Attitudes. --- Psychological aspects. --- -Attitudes --- Motherhood - Canada - Psychological aspects --- Gender identity - Canada --- Middle class women - Canada - Attitudes --- Working class women - Canada - Attitudes --- Gender dysphoria

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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, 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.

History of civilization --- anno 1800-1899 --- France: North --- Middle class women --- Middle class --- Femmes des classes moyennes --- Classes moyennes --- History --- Histoire --- -Middle class women --- -Women --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- -History --- -Social conditions --- -Middle class --- Women --- Social conditions

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"To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment"-- "In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous.

To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Workerexamines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women's movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married and unmarried. Office workers also developed a critique of gender inequality and sexual exploitation both within and outside the workplace. From Angel to Office Workeris a major contribution to modern Mexican history as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationships between labor, politics, and the cultural and public spheres."--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico. --- Middle class women --- Women clerks --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Clerks --- History --- Employment --- E-books --- History of Mexico --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949