Economistas liberales y cuestión femenina. El singular discurso de la domesticidad de la escuela economista española (1861-1909)

Susana Martinez-Rodriguez ()

No 907, Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) from Asociación Española de Historia Económica

Abstract: The texts by the Spanish Economist School (second half of the 19th century) –so called liberals- valued the role of women in the economy and the society in a way which strongly confronted the prevailing discourse that defended a unique and exclusive role for all women: housewife and mother. Most members of the Spanish liberal economic trend defended female work in the factories, arguing in terms of wages; they even asked for professional training for illiterate women (who in many cases could not even write and read for the fact of being a woman). The texts of those economists provided new ideas about the economic and social role of women in a Spain dominated by a discourse that denied the need for female work even for poor working class families

Keywords: discourse of the domesticity; role of women in the contemporary societies; Spanish Economists School; Spain; 19th century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B54 B29 Z19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his and nep-hpe
Date: 2009-09

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.aehe.net/2009/09/dt-aehe-0907.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ahe:dtaehe:0907

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) from Asociación Española de Historia Económica
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Mar Rubio ().