scholarly journals To Love, Honour and Obey

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
Kathryn Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Wife Battering

This paper aims to reconstruct some of the causes and the context of wife-battering in Montreal between the years 1869-1879. It seeks to determine what the immediate causes were as well as the underlying factors that shaped these conflicts. It also describes how the individuals involved responded, what the role of neighbours was and how this problem was viewed by the society at large. At a broader level, this research seeks to insert one largely ignored aspect of women's lived experience into the historical record while furthering our knowledge of relationships between men and women and working-class family life in general in the mid nineteenth century.

The History of ‘the Reading Public’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Collini
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Victorian Periodicals

This chapter argues that accounts of ‘the reading public’ are always fundamentally historical, usually involving stories of ‘growth’ or ‘decline’. It examines Q. D. Leavis’s Fiction and the Reading Public, which builds a relentlessly pessimistic critique of the debased standards of the present out of a highly selective account of literature and its publics since the Elizabethan period. It goes on to exhibit the complicated analysis of the role of previous publics in F. R. Leavis’s revisionist literary history, including his ambivalent admiration for the great Victorian periodicals. And it shows how Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy carries an almost buried interpretation of social change from the nineteenth century onwards, constantly contrasting the vibrant and healthy forms of entertainment built up in old working-class communities with the slick, commercialized reading matter introduced by post-1945 prosperity.

Sarah as victim and perpetrator: Whiteness, power, and memory in the matriarchal narrative

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-499
Author(s):  
Jayme R. Reaves
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
White Women ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
The World

Womanist biblical interpretation tradition calls for white women to see themselves, not as the marginalized character, but as the text’s oppressor. The text, and a community who reads that same text and has daily experiences of oppression, asks white women to recognize that, because of our position in society, we have wittingly or unwittingly been in the role of Sarah more often than we have been in the role of Hagar. Therefore, we have a responsibility to take that reality seriously by acknowledging it, delving deeper, being receptive to challenge, and allowing it to transform how we view, and operate within, the world. This article expands on and models this approach by acknowledging the ways in which the Sarah narrative has been read by white women, with a particular view to nineteenth-century historical readings in the context of American slavery as well as with an awareness of whiteness and white privilege. It seeks to dig deeper into the text to understand the fullness of Sarah’s experience as both victim and perpetrator, to hear the challenge to whiteness and privilege, and to find a way to read the text that speaks to the lived experience of the oppressed as well as giving challenge to the privileged.

scholarly journals From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akın Sefer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Late Ottoman ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThis article introduces a bottom-up perspective to the history of the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the experiences of workers in the Imperial Naval Arsenal (Tersâne-i Âmire) in Istanbul. Drawing mainly on primary documents, the article explores, from a class-formation perspective, the struggles and relations of Arsenal workers from the second half of the nineteenth century until the revolution. The Arsenal workers’ involvement in the revolution was rooted in their class solidarity, which was revealed in a number of ways throughout this period. The workers’ immediate embrace of the revolution was spurred by their radicalization against the state; such radicalization stemmed from the state's failure to solve the workers’ persistent economic problems, and its attempts to discharge them and replace them with military labor. The case of the Arsenal workers thus points to the role of working-class discontent in the history of the revolution, a dimension that has thus far been only minimally addressed in Ottoman historiography.

Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire among Working-Class Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century London

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Beverly Young ◽  
Francoise Barret-Ducrocq ◽  
John Howe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Men And Women

“The purity of my blood cannot put food on my table”: Changing Attitudes Towards Interracial Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Shumway
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Interracial Marriage ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Minor Children ◽  
The Right ◽  
Parental Opposition ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Do So

Lorenzo Barbosa had a big problem with his daughter Josefa. In June 1821, in Buenos Aires, young Josefa Barbosa was in love with Pascual Cruz. What bothered Lorenzo was that Pascual was a mulatto, while the Barbosa family was white. When the couple asked his permission to marry, Lorenzo vehemently opposed the union and withheld his consent. He was acting within his rights, since minor children (men and women younger than 25 and 23 respectively) were required by law to obtain parental permission to marry. To bolster his case, Lorenzo invoked the power of a colonial law issued in 1778, known as the Royal Pragmatic on marriage, which gave parents the right to block their children's marriages to “unequal partners.” Even though Buenos Aires had broken away from Spain in 1810, most colonial laws regarding family life, including the pragmatic, continued in force into the national period. But just as in colonial times, children retained the right to challenge parental opposition in court. If they chose to do so, the resulting case was known as a disenso.

The “Chiliasm of Despair” Reconsidered: Revivalism and Working-Class Agitation in County Durham

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Jaffe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social History ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Radicalism

The role of evangelical religion in the social history of the English working class has been an area of both bewildering theories and un-founded generalizations. The problem, of course, was given a degree of notoriety by Elie Halévy who, according to the received interpretation, claimed that the revolutionary fervor characteristic of the Continental working class in the first half of the nineteenth century was drained from its British counterpart because of the latter's acceptance of Evangelicalism, namely, Methodism.It was revived most notably by E. P. Thompson, who accepted the counterrevolutionary effect of Methodism but claimed that the evangelical message was really an agent of capitalist domination acting to subordinate the industrial working class to the dominion of factory time and work discipline. Furthermore, Thompson argued, the English working class only accepted Methodism reluctantly and in the aftermath of actual political defeats that marked their social and economic subordination to capital. This view has gained a wide acceptance among many of the most prominent labor historians, including E. J. Hobsbawm and George Rudé who believe that Evangelicalism was the working-class's “chiliasm of despair” that “offered the one-time labour militant … compensation for temporal defeats.”There could hardly be a starker contrast between the interpretation of these labor historians and the views of those who have examined the social and political history of religion in early industrial Britain. Among the most important of these, W. R. Ward has claimed that Methodism was popular among the laboring classes of the early nineteenth century precisely because it complemented political radicalism.

The Ten Hours Movement and the Working-Class Family in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 136-157
Author(s):  
Colin Creighton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe Ten Hours Movement of the 1830s and 1840s in Britain was the first large-scale working-class struggle to challenge the impact of industrial capitalism upon working-class family life. Yet its discourse on family has been relatively neglected by historians of the movement. This article examines the nature of the movement's critique, the vision of family life that it tried to realize, and the challenge that this posed to the emerging bourgeois order and, on this basis, to reconsider its contribution to the gender ordering of working-class family life.

scholarly journals Ribet!: Persepsi Menikah pada Emerging Adulthood

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zein Permana ◽  
Alnida Destiana Nishfathul Medynna
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Open Questions

Persepsi tentang pernikahan merupakan pondasi awal yang dipersiapkan dalam membangun kehidupan keluarga. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendalami persepsi menikah pada emerging adulthood (18-25 tahun) Universitas X di Cimahi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan analisis tematik. Partisipan penelitian adalah mahasiswa (19-20 tahun) berjumlah 64 orang. Pengambilan data dilakukan dengan mengajukan tiga pertanyaan terbuka melalui google form. Data diolah menggunakan aplikasi MAXQDA 2020. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa menikah adalah menyatukan laki-laki dan perempuan dalam hubungan serius untuk saling berkomitmen, menjalankan ibadah, takut, dan ribet. Menurut partisipan, hal yang akan dilakukan dan penting dilakukan dalam pernikahan adalah komitmen, menjalankan peran suami/istri, interaksi, memiliki keturunan, tanggung jawab, dan menjaga aib. Dengan demikian, penelitian ini memberikan data empiris terkait persepsi menikah pada emerging adulthood.The perception of marriage is the initial foundation prepared family life. This study aims to explore the perception of marriage in emerging adulthood (18-25 years) University X in Cimahi. This research uses qualitative methods with thematic analysis. The participants are 64 students (19-20 years). Data was collected by asking three open questions via google form. The data is processed using the MAXQDA 2020. The results show that marriage is to unite men and women in serious relationships to commit to each other, worship, fear, and complicated. According to participants, things that will be do and important to do in marriage are commitment, carrying out the role of husband / wife, interaction, having children, responsibility, and maintaining disgrace. Thus, this study provides empirical data regarding the perception of marriage in emerging adulthood.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE THREE MAIN CHARACTERS IN SUPPORTING THE THEME OF TO THE LIGHTHOUSE BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 84-102
Author(s):  
Eny Suprihandani
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
The Feminine

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), a brilliant English writer, has been called as a feminist, since she fought for women’s rights and protested the domination of men. She might be also called as an androgynist writer, for she sometimes emphasized the harmony of men and women. To the Lighthouse, which was published in 1927, is her best novel of both feminism and androgyny. It is a realistic novel about a family and an elegy for people Virginia loved. Based on the strong and deep memories of her own family, she described a group of the more complex people spending holiday in a summer house on Scottish coast. It consists of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay with their eight children and assorted guests. They are going to have a visit to a nearby lighthouse. It is put off because of the weather, and takes place ten years later. From this delay of the expedition to the lighthouse, she constructed the complex tensions of family life and the conflict of male and female principles. For Virginia there is not one of kind of truth, but two. There is the truth of reason, and there is the truth of imagination. The truth of reason is pre-eminently the masculine sphere, while the truth of imagination, or intuitive, is the feminine. Together, these truths make up what she calls reality. Regarding this idea, in To the Lighthouse, she tries to imply a theme about the harmony by presenting male and female characters that have contradictory views and different principles.There are many characters in To the Lighthouse, Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe are supposed to be the main characters since they dominantly support the development of the events and even most of the story focuses on their actions, attitudes and thoughts. This research aims to give evidence that Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe are all the main characters who, with their words, thoughts and actions, relate each other to support the theme of To the Lighthouse

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