HIEU 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Stratification, Boarding School, Separate Spheres
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Hieu 140 lecture 3 angel in the house": middle class women in 19th century europe. The modern gender system: first half of 19th century: gender system: coherent and stable set of institutions, ideologies, cultural practices that add up to widely accepted understanding of male/female identities and roles. Institutions spread ideologies that create the gender system. A middle class/bourgeoisie culture and society: middle class culture becomes the aspirational culture that everyone else wants to follow. In pre-modern agrarian society, "the household economy", most production occurs within the household, and men and women both participate: men and women of the aristocracy both did not work, production leaves the household in industrialization, moves to factories. Parameters of the new gender system: separate spheres. Separate spheres: men belong outside the home, and women inside of it; men and women have a separate and complementary role in life. In the pre-modern world, aristocrats had no vocation: poem "angel in the house"
