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Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies
Sarah Fatherly
其他書名
Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia
出版Lehigh University Press, 2008
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)History / WomenPolitical Science / American Government / LocalPolitical Science / Women in PoliticsSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanSocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN09342239479780934223942
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I5UUAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This engaging and important study explores women's central involvement in the creation of an elite class in colonial Philadelphia. It shows how major mercantile families adopted an English model of class identity and adapted it to the realities of colonial life in the mid-Atlantic region. Critical figures in this process of elite formation, wealthy women employed strategies in marriage, consumption, education, and leisure that established them and their male kin as the dominant social and cultural figures in the Quaker city and its hinterland. In the process, women themselves enjoyed increased intellectual opportunities and political power as well as other privileges of elevated social rank that blunted the limitations they faced living in a highly patriarchal culture. When the American Revolution launched its democratic challenge to aristocratic and imperial structures, women's commitment to the elite social rank they had helped create ensured its survival. Sarah Fatherly is Associate Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at Otterbein College.