Women at home, at school and in the factory. The particular discourse of domesticity done by the Spanish Escuela Economista (1861-1909)

Susana Martínez Rodríguez
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Susana Martínez Rodríguez: Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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No 2009_03, UHE Working papers from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Unitat d'Història Econòmica

Abstract: The texts by the Spanish Economist School (second half of the 19th century) contain an assessment of the role of women in the economy and society that is transgressor in front of the prevailing discourse that defended a unique and exclusive role for all women: being at home and a mother. Most members of that economic trend defended female work in the factories, basing themselves on wage arguments and even asked for a professional training for those who in many cases could not even write and read for the fact of being a woman. The texts of those economists give new ideas about the economic and social role of women in a Spain dominated by a discourse that denied the necessity of female work for the working families.

Keywords: discourse of the domesticity; role of women in the contemporary societies; Escuela Economista; Spain; 19th century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-03

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