Mutuality and Marginality: Liberal Moral Theory and Working-Class Women in Nineteenth-Century England

Smith, Ruth L.; Valenze, Deborah

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“…The economic dependence of women on male wages is socially constructed and can be eliminated only through a total social reorganization that must address not only the economy but also gender-that is, familial and kinship structures and the social division of labor by sex.5 Thus, even though it may start from a position quite critical of liberal individualism, this analysis, too, has as one focus the goal of economic self-sufficiency for women. Barbara Taylor recounted the transformation and bifurcation of nineteenthcentury British utopian socialism into a gender-conscious feminism that was relatively class-blind and a class-conscious socialism that was relatively gender-blind (Taylor 1983; also Smith and Valenze 1988). Similarly, in the contemporary U.S. context, we find analyses that would have women make "independence," rather than collective empowerment, their goal.…”

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Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy

Ackelsberg¹

1994

Rethinking Marxism

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Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy

Ackelsberg¹

1994

Rethinking Marxism

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“…Through work and marriage, women tied households to one another and to the locality. 69 Domestic self-provisioning and interhousehold exchanges were of themselves probably not reasons for remaining in Southill, but sharing often provided security and impeded social or geographical mobility. 70 Moreover, between 1834 and 1914, a woman could only make a claim for parish relief where she was 'settled' -that is, in the parish of her birth or of her husband's birth.…”

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The Fraternity of Female Friendly Societies

Weinbren¹

2010

Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300–2000

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The re-making of the English working class?

Steinberg

1991

Theor Soc

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Roundhead, Leveller, and Cavalier, Chartist and Anti-Corn Law Leaguer, were not [Pavlovian] dogs; they did not salivate their creeds to economic stimuli; they loved and hated, a[gued, thought, and made moral choices. Economic changes impel changes in social relationships, in relations between real men and real women; and these are apprehended, felt, reveal themselves in feelings of injustice, frustration, aspirations for social change; all is fought out in human consciousness, including the moral consciousness. If this were not so, [people] would be -not dogs -but ants, adjusting their society to the upheavals in the terrain. But [people] make their own history: they are part agents, part victims: it is precisely the element of agency which distinguishes them from beasts, which is the human part.., and which is the business of our consciousness to increase.E. E Thompson ~In the quarter-century since the publication of Thompson's remarkable tome, The Making of the English Working Class, it and his subsequent works have informed the historical vision of a generation of social scientists in Britain and in the United States. These works have sparked political and academic controversy. Thompson and his confederates have wrestled with critics over the constitution of the early nineteenthcentury working class, the historical development of British class structure, and the theoretical problematic of culture versus structure. Much of these debates -sometimes heated and often downright scrappyhas been conducted within the confines of Marxist historiography and theory, although for Thompson, at least, such controversies are always as much a matter of practical politics as the stuff of academic roundtables.Thompson's achievements have come under renewed scrutiny recently through a new line of critique. Whereas the initial examination of The

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Mutuality and Marginality: Liberal Moral Theory and Working-Class Women in Nineteenth-Century England

Cited by 17 publications

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Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy

Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy

The Fraternity of Female Friendly Societies

The re-making of the English working class?

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