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Author Smith, Bonnie G., 1940-

Title Ladies of the leisure class : the bourgeoises of northern France in the nineteenth century / Bonnie G. Smith.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1981]
©1981

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.40944 S643L    Check Shelf
Description x, 303 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction: a world apart -- Nord and its men -- Productive life of women --Domesticity: the rhetoric of reproduction -- Cosmos: faith versus reason -- Society: charity versus capitalism -- Education: innocence versus enlightenment -- Domestic myth -- Woman's mentality versus liberal consciousness.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-296) and index.
Subject Middle class women -- France, Northern -- History -- 19th century.
Middle class -- France, Northern -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0691053308
9780691053301
0691101213 lim. pbk. ed.
9780691101217 lim. pbk. ed.
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