Gender and the "great divide": Public and private in British gender history

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-27

  Davidoff, Leonore ^a  

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EID: 33845538428     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0020     Document Type: Article

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1. Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process: A History of Manners (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978), 190.
2. Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice (London: Edward Arnold, 2000), 113.
3. The leading piece has been Amanda Vickery, "Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History," Historical Journal 36, no 2 (1993): 383-414.
4. Amanda Vickery, Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998),
5. Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, eds, Gender in Eighteenth Century England: Roles, Representations, and Responsibilities (London: Longman, 1997);
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8. and Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).
9. Vickery, Gentleman's Daughter, 6.
10. Ann Summers, "Common Sense About Separate Spheres," Female Lives, Moral States: Women, Religion, and Public Life in Britain, 1800-1939 (London: Threshold Press, 2000), 25.
11. Jeff Weintraub, "Preface" in Public and Private in Thought and Practice, ed. Jeff Weintraub and Krishnan Kumar (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), xii.
12. Lawrence Klein, "Gender and the Public/Private Distinction in the Eighteenth Century: Some Questions About Evidence and Analytic Procedure," Eighteenth Century Studies 19, no. 1 (1995): 97-109.
13. Weintraub, Public and Private in Thought and Practice, 19;
14. Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Cambridge, Mass.; MIT Press, 1989);
15. and Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977).
16. Jane Rendall, "Women and the Public Sphere," in Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect, ed. Leonore Davidoff, Keith McClelland, and Eleni Varkis (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000): 57-70
17. For a detailed discussion of this point, see Leonore Davidoff, "Regarding Some 'Old Husband's Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History," Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).
18. For an insightful overview, see Kathleen Canning, "The Body as Method? Reflections on the place of the Body in Gender History," in Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect, 81-95.
19. David Brain, "From Public Housing to Private Communities; The Disicpline of Design and Materialization of the Public/Private Distinction in the Built Environment," in Public and Private in Thought and Practice, 237.
20. See an explication of these patterns in relation to the family in Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
21. "Amongst the most marked features of Georgian sexuality was its public stamp, its openness and visibility," Roy Porter and Lesley Hall, The Facts of Life; The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995): 22.
22. These developments are closely related to the concept of childhood, which is a central part of modern culture. See Carolyn Steedman, Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930 (London: Virago, 1995);
23. and Diana Gittins, The Child in Question (London: Macmillan, 1998).
24. Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (London: Virago, 1992);
25. and Erica Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End (Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000).
26. D. Simon "Master and Servant," John D. Saville, ed. Democracy and the Labour Movement (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1954).
27. Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair, "The Economic Role of Middle-Class Women in Victorian Glasgow," Women's History Review 9, no 4 (2000): 791-814;
28. Penelope Lane, "Women, Property, and Inheritance: Wealth Creation and Income in Small English Towns, 1750-1835" in Property and Inheritance in the Town, 1750-1835, ed. Jon Stobart and Alistair Owen (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2000).
29. Domestic service, the largest occupation of women well into the twentieth century, has always been regarded as an unproductive, "quasi- familial" position. See Leonore Davidoff, "Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and Edwardian England" in Worlds Between;
30. and Deborah Valenze, The First Industrial Woman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
31. Davidoff, "Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales,'" 252.
32. and Martha Vicinus, Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women 1870-1914 (London: Virago, 1985).
33. Simon Gunn, The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City, 1840-1914 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
34. Vernon Wentworth, "An Improved Corn and Cattle Market in Saxmundham" in Suffolk Farming in the Ninteenth Century, vol. 1, ed. J. Thirsk and J. Imray (Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society, 1958), 159.
35. Clare Midgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 (London: Routledge, 1992), 72.
36. Clare Midgley, "Slave Sugar Boycotts: Female Activism and the Domestic Base of British Anti-Slavery Culture," Slavery and Abolition 17, no 3 (1996): 137-62.
37. Cited in Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson, eds., Women in British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat (Basingstoke, England: MacMillan Press, 2000), 10.
38. Jutta Schwarzkopf, Women in the Chartist Movement (Basingstoke, England: MacMillan Press, 1991).
39. Leonore Davidoff, Jeanne L'Esperance, and Howard Newby, "Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society," in Worlds Between, 41-72.
40. John Tosh, A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle Class Home in Victorian England (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999).
41. For the importance of internal space in the gender allocation within modern development, see Ferhunde Ozbay, "Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernization," in Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect, 137-50.
42. Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink, and Katherine Holden, "Domestic Service and Lodging: Doing Family Work," in The Family Story: Blood, Contract, and Intimacy, 1830-1960 (London: Longman, 1999).
43. Peter Bailey, "Parasexuality and Glamour: The Victorian Barmaid as Cultural Prototype," Gender and History, 2, no. 2 (1990): 148-93.
44. Vicinus, Independent Women.
45. Lynne Walker, "Home and Away: The Feminist Remapping of Public and Private Space in Victorian London," in The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space, ed. Iain Borden, Joe Kerr, Jane Rendell with Alicia Pivaro (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT University Press, 2001).
46. Rendall, "Women and the Public Sphere," 62.
47. and Joy Dixon, Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) for a variety of reasons the clergyman's masculinity could be problematic to maintain.
48. Leonore Davidoff, The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette, and the Season (London: Hutchinson, 1986);
49. and Pat Jalland, Women, Marriage, and Politics, 1860-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
50. Davidoff, The Best Circles, 32;
51. for similar positions in the twentieth century, see Janet Finch, Married to the Job: Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work (London: Allen and Unwin, 1983).
52. Jane Lewis, Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1991).
53. "How Rich is the Queen and What Does She Really Own?" The Independent 31 May 2002.
54. Bridget Hill, "Women's History: A Study in Change, Continuity, or Standing Still?" Women's History Review 2, no. 1 (1993): 5-22;
55. Judith Bennett, "Women's History: A Study in Change and Continuity," Women's History Review 2, no. 2 (1993): 173-84;
56. Pamela Sharpe, "Continuity and Change: Women's History and Economic History in Britain," Economic History Review 48, no. 2 (1995): 353-69;
57. and Judith Bennett, "Confronting Continuity," Journal of Women's History 9, no. 3 (1997)
58. Summers, Female Lives and Moral States, 2.
59. Nancy Fraser, "Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas," in Feminism: The Public and the Private, ed. Joan Landes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998): 334.