9-26-WA-Pastoralizatiion of HOusework Flashcards
Mixed economies in antebellum households
economic systems that functioned on the bases of both paid and unpaid labor and were dependent upon both
What is the Title and Author of the Reading?
The Pastoralization of Housework (174-185)
Jeanne Boydston
In section “The many Frontiers of Industrializing America, 1820-1880
What is Boydston Trying to establish, prove, or argue with the numbers and statistics?
Boydston is putting a cash value on women’s unpaid and paid work to the family.
In what way was women’s labor redefined in antebellum America?
The culture of the antebellum Northeast recognized the role of wives in the making of contented and healthy families.
It was not only Woman-in-the-abstact, but presumably, real women who guided the on-going functions of the home through the effortless “emanations” of their very being, providing for the needs of their families without labor, through their very presence in the household.
The labor and economic value of housework ceased to exist in the culture of the antebellum Northeast. It became work’s opposite: a new form of leisure…
How was women’s labor described by society, what was its function?
Home is woman’s throne; where she maintains her royal court, and sways her queenly authority. It is there that man learns to appreciate her worth, and to realize the sweet and tender influences which she casts around her; there she exhibits the excellences of character which God had in view in her creation. (Daniel C. Eddy) concluding “Her life should be a calm, holy, beautiful walk.”
What was the new function of the home supposed to serve?
If business was world into which only men traveled and where they daily risked losing thier souls, then wherever Woman was, was sanctuary. And Woman was in the Home.
Why This Change?
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What was the reaction of most women to the new definition of their roles? Why this reaction, according to Boydston?
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Why this reaction, according to Boydston?
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How does Jeanne Boyston describe the relationship between home and work in antebellum America?
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How does Boydston describe the relationship between women’s work and men’s work?
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What does Boydston think were the uses of the ideology of separate spheres?
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What does antebellum mean?
Adj. A period occurring or existing before a particular war
What is the ideology of gender spheres?
Woman was meant to “shine-at-home”
Men venture into the world of nineteenth-century business, where “cunning, intrigue, falsehood, slander and vitupreratve violence” reigned
How do the middle-class households described by Boydston differ from the households in which Harriet Jacobs and Rachel Davis lived (pp. 164-173)?
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