AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution
Document Summary
Thesis: gender was constructed in the 19th century in response to changes wrought by industrialization; the dominant paradigm that emerged was expressed in the cult of domesticity and the separation of spheres. Written as a manual on how to be a girl. Most popular publications of this time were manuals on girlhood. Led to structural changed and ideological changes. 1776 top 10% of population 47% of wealth. 1860 top 10 % of pop 70% of wealth. Workplace shifts from domestic to industrial or commercial space. First surge was good for southern economy. 1860 south us population only 10% capital. 4. new possibilities for middle class advancement. 5. rise of individualism (vs. civic virtue) 18th century households: a social and economic unit: landowner and wife and children and servants, poor and slave families split up. Shift of virtue from civic to domestic. The separation of spheres= the cult of domesticity.
