Artikel
La femme, maîtresse de maison? : rôle et place des femmes dans les ouvrages d'économie domestique au XVIIIe siècle
Verfasst von:
Chatenet, Aurélie
in:
Histoire, économie et société
Paris:
2009
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21 - 34 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Chatenet, Aurélie |
| In: | Histoire, économie et société |
| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Sprache: | Nicht einzuordnen |
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| In the modern era, a literature that aims at rehabilitating women’s role within the Christian marriage develops. These manuals, which spread on the European scale, try to prepare young girls to their future tasks and offer an ideal of a devoted and obedient wife, and careful mother. Theseconduct books, on the whole, deal with the wife’s duties and focus on her daily role in her household. If the English conduct books have been well studied, the French ones from the eighteenth century still remain unexplored. The study of a corpus of French manuals describing women’s role in the eighteenth century domestic economy allows to analyse how is built a discourse which aims at confining women to the domestic sphere while conceding them power in the household. Even if women’s role is largely affirmed, promoted and precisely described, it is only seen as a delegation of the authority that still remains fundamentally masculine. This portrait of an ideal wife raises the question of relationships between men and women. It also brings up the problem of the sharing of the tasks in the couple, and beyond it questions the nature of women’s power. These issues, which are at the heart of the Gender History stakes, also invite to understand how, from these prescriptions, women have been able to negotiate and create for themselves areas of liberty. | |
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