Productive Men and Reproductive Women - The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment (Paperback, illustrated edition)

The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Prior to the eighteenth century, cultural norms prescribed active, interdependent economic roles for both women and men. Enlightenment economists transformed these gender paradigms as they postulated a market exchange system directed exclusively by men. By the early nineteenth century, the emerging bourgeois value system affirmed the new civil society and the market place as exclusively male realms. These standards defined women's options largely as marriage and motherhood.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Marion W Gray
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-57181-172-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	1-57181-172-9
Barcode:	9781571811721

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