ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Homosociality, Wage Labour, Silent Treatment
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Emphasis in this book on the way that work can fit in domestic ideology. Work defined as house work, it s wholesome, keeps from ennui and mischief, gives sense of power better than money or fashion: alcott literalizes, embodies the difference in spheres: Pushing the idea of male sphere and female spheres to extremes here. How she portrays the separate spheres, the values attached/presented. His house is cold and forbidding and distinctly lacking in domestic ties. They have cultural capital, library, piano, girls jealous. But they re rich in family or something. Also shifting the terms here, goes out of its way to redefine riches in domestic turns: track throughout book, meg especially learns what it means. On one hand, quite radical in 19th c, still rather conservative though, because it only prioritizes one side of the binary, which still fundamentally based on biological.
