Artikel
Literary production and the rearticulation of home space in the works of George Sand, Marie d'Agoult and Hortense Allart
Verfasst von:
Walton, Whitney
in:
Women's history review
Wallingford:
1997
,
115 - 132 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Walton, Whitney |
| In: | Women's history review |
| Jahr: | 1997 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| Bourgeois French discourse on the home in the nineteenth century emphasized its domestic and private nature, and its separation from the male sphere of work and public affairs. Prescriptive literature vaunted the domestic power of women who devoted themselves solely to familial and wifely concerns. However, three successful women writers - George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, and Hortense Allart - rejected this role of domestic womanhood, and in their autobiographies and fiction they represented the many ways that laws and mores actually dispossessed women of their homes. Through writing - both in terms of the physical process of literary production and in terms of the resulting texts - they reinvented the home as a site combining work and vamily spaces, and as a creation of women independent of men. Although they eschewed relations with working-class feminists who proposed more radical alternatives to the home, such as communal day care arrangements, their writings were nonetheless feminist in rearticulating the "feminine" space of the home to unite privacy and independence, domesticity and professional sociability, and women, men, and children on an egalitarian basis. | |
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