HIS205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution, Joint-Stock Company, Devaluation
4 Apr 2016
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Women"s life cycle: bodies, sexuality, reproductive roles. Women"s work: in the countryside, in cities. Women and the development of capitalism: businesswomen, investors, consumers. Social, economic, cultural positions were related to women"s physical bodies. Secondary social status was justified by their bodies. Analysis of economics must include reproductive and productive activities. Preindustrial economic activities cannot be separated from family and household: household economy: family and household as unit of production, household was basic unit of production, women engaged in productive labor within household, not just reproductive work. Women are more lustful than men, attitude towards female sexuality. Body was created by god so it cannot be entirely bad. Protestants: affection sex is not just for creation, but also for intimacy. Christians saw sex as tolerable as long as people were married, and for procreation. It also cannot upset social and sexual order. (between man and women, women should be submissive) however, women did engage in deviant sexual practices.
