Taverns and Tavern Culture on the Southern Colonial Frontier: Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1776

Thorp, Daniel B.

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“…Women's respectability in colonial times was related to domesticity, appropriate language and behaviour (Skeggs, ) and sexual restraint (Frances, ). Respectable women in the early 20 th century occupied mainly private spaces (Skeggs, ) and were rarely seen in public houses (Thorpe, ). If spotted in such places, they were cast as ‘public women’ and subjected to harsh social sanction (Wright, ).…”

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“…In the Victorian era, British women achieved respectability by adhering to prevailing moral rules and gendered expectations relating to behaviour and appearance (Skeggs, ). Respectable women dressed modestly (Whitehead, ), demonstrated self‐restraint (Whiteside, ), were sober and well‐mannered, and confined themselves to mainly private spheres (Thorpe, ). Domesticity was also a central component of respectability, where good women were dutiful mothers and effective housekeepers (Skeggs, ).…”

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Respectable Femininity and Career Agency: Exploring Paradoxical Imperatives

Fernando¹,

Cohen²

2013

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper places respectable femininity at the very centre of career enactment. In the accounts of 24 Sri Lankan women, notions of being a 'respectable' woman recurred as respondents described how important it was to adhere to the powerful behavioural norms for women in their organizations and society. However while such respectability was vital for women's career progression, it ultimately restricted their agency and conflicted with other requirements for advancement. Based on our empirical findings, we propose that being a respectable woman was experienced as paradox, where at times it was seen as impossible to be both a good woman and a successful careerist. We highlight the implications of our findings for women's careers in South Asia and more widely.

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Respectable Femininity and Career Agency: Exploring Paradoxical Imperatives

Fernando¹,

Cohen²

2013

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Respectable femininity has historically been associated with the intersection of class and gender and is described as ‘an ideological construct leading to a set of behavioural norms commonly likened to the 19 th and 20 th centuries (Radhakrishnan, ), where respectable women dressed modestly (Whitehead ), demonstrated self‐restraint (Whiteside, ), were sober and well‐mannered and confined themselves to mainly private spheres (Thorpe, )’ (Fernando and Cohen, , p. 149). Skeggs () suggests that women in the 18 th and 19 th centuries could ‘prove’ their respectability through conduct and appearance.…”

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Women Elite Leaders Doing Respectable Business Femininity: How Privilege is Conferred, Contested and Defended through the Body

Mavin¹,

Grandy²

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper offers a theory of respectable business femininity. Respectable business femininity is theorized as a discursive and relational process that explains tensions women elite leaders experience at the nexus of being both One and Other and sometimes privileged, embedded notions of leadership as masculine and wider expectations of acceptable embodied femininity. Such tensions manifest through a disciplining of women leaders' bodies and appearance by self-and-others, as a means of appraising women as credible elite leaders and respectable women. Through a qualitative study we show how, within sites of ambiguity, embodied leadership and subjectivities are both enabled and constrained. Accounts highlight how privilege is fluid and (de)stabilized in that it is conferred, contested and defended through women's bodies and appearance. We advance understandings of contemporary respectable femininity, privilege at work, and body work, and consider practical implications for women leaders and management education.

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“…Mail was delivered to and collected from taverns Earle (1968), Sandoval-Strausz (2003), Salinger (2004), Thorp (1996), Conroy (1995 Business Venues for trade where merchants exchanged goods, buyers and sellers came to bargain and even where auctions were administered and estates sold Earle (1968), Northington (1936), Graham (1953), Thorp (1996), Thompson (1989) Politics Both at formal and informal levels, including selection of candidates, political speeches, and voting Earle (1968), Burke (2005), Sandoval-Strausz (2003) Law Magistrates' courts were often first established in taverns. Consultancy between lawyers and clients was administered in taverns regularly Earle (1968), Burke (2005), Thorp (1996) Religion Often taverns were developed before churches could be built and religious services would be held in them Duess (2007) Table I shows the multi-functioning role of taverns and inns in nineteenth century America. Despite the limited social, commercial, and political institutions recognisable to settlers descending upon the frontier, the one thing they did find was taverns.…”

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“…Nearly always the first building granted permission to be erected on frontier lands, the literature indicates the significant role taverns played in both frontier life and stage coach travel. Taverns not only accommodated settlers as they flocked to the frontier, but they also acted as a catalyst for development as small frontier towns invariably grew around them (Sandoval-Strausz, 2003;Thompson, 1989;Thorp, 1996). The taverns therefore became a tool facilitating the population of the frontier lands.…”

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Enterprise in the American West

Maclaren

Young

Lochrie

2013

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore commercial hospitality enterprise and its impact on settlement development in the American West during the 1800s, focussing on the story of the Fanthorp Inn in Texas, USA. Design/methodology/approach -The paper outlines the theory relating to entrepreneurial opportunity and applies it to the historical case of the Fanthorp Inn, Texas, USA. The methodological approach of the paper is based on an in-depth study into the development of one tavern using multiple sources of evidence. Findings -First, opportunity on the frontier was controlled to the extent that it became objective in the Kirznerian sense. Second, commercial hospitality enterprise was used as a vehicle for settlement development in frontier America.Research limitations/implications -The paper is limited by its use of one case study and the scarcity of sources of historical evidence. Further studies could engage with different examples of frontier hospitality businesses and develop the method further. Practical implications -The paper provides deeper understanding of settlement development in the American West during the 1800s and supplies a methodological framework with which further organisational research can engage with historical sources of data. The findings also suggest that opportunity exists relative to its context. Originality/value -The paper explores hospitality as a context for entrepreneurial activity in the American West and uses a historical case study method.

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Taverns and Tavern Culture on the Southern Colonial Frontier: Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1776

Cited by 8 publications

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Respectable Femininity and Career Agency: Exploring Paradoxical Imperatives

Respectable Femininity and Career Agency: Exploring Paradoxical Imperatives

Women Elite Leaders Doing Respectable Business Femininity: How Privilege is Conferred, Contested and Defended through the Body

Enterprise in the American West

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