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Forwarded from H-IDEAS by Ross Emmett
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 11:20:15 -0500
From: Adam Stewart <stewarta@newberry.org>
Dr. William M. Scholl Center
for Family and Community History
The Newberry Seminar
in American Social History
Amy Dru Stanley
University of Chicago
Home Life and the Morality of the Market
"This essay argues that the market revolution in nineteenth-century America
posed a momentous moral problem that contemporaries understood as a problem
of gender. My intent is to show that the same representations of gender
invoked to bestow legitimacy on market society also figured powerfully in
the symbolism of antislavery that portrayed North and South as polar
opposites. The antislavery worldview, I suggest, coalesced with the
ideology of separate spheres to define the moral nature of market society in
terms of the right to a family unscathed by the market's calculus."
at The Newberry Library
Tuesday, April 2, 1996
3:30-5:30 p.m.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Adam Stewart at the
Scholl Center for Family and Community History, (312) 255-3524 or e-mail
stewarta@newberry.org, to obtain a copy of the paper. The seminar format
assumes that all participants have read the paper in advance. Papers will
be distributed only to those planning on attending the seminar.
Adam Stewart Dr. William. M. Scholl Center
for Family & Community History
(312) 255-3524 The Newberry Library
(312) 255-3513 (fax) 60 West Walton Street
stewarta@newberry.org Chicago, IL 60610
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