Not-That-Bright said:
Really? That's quite interesting... got any articles you could link to about this?
actually it was an assignment i did
http://www.music.usyd.edu.au/docs/genstudies_outline_doc.pdf
one of those topics that are a bitch to find on the net, but if you will, here are the books... i don't quite remember which book it was, since it was a while ago, but what do you know, thought it might give me a smidge of credibility
Week beginning August 15: INDUSTRIALIZATION: WOMENS’
BODIES
Did the coming of industrial society increase women’s control over
their own bodies? (Among the topics you might consider are
women and the family, employment, marriage, reproduction and
fertility, prostitution. Focus your answers on the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries.)
A. Anderson, Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of
Fallenness in Victorian Culture, Ithaca, 1993
P. Aries & G. Duby, eds. A History of Private Life, vol. 4, From the Fires
of Revolution to the Great War, Cambridge Mass. And London, 1990,
pp. 131-165; pp.228-239 (CCR)
R. Fuchs, Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival
in the Nineteenth Century, New Brunswick, N.J., 1992
J. Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present,
New York, 1985
J. Henderson & Richard Wall, ed., Poor Women and Children in the
European Past, London, 1994 (excerpts CCR)
E. Hopkins, A Social History of the English Working Classes,1815-
1945, London, 1979
C, Lis, Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770-1914,
New Haven, 1986
N. Roberts, Whores in History: Prostitution in Western Society, London,
1993 (FSR)
W. Seccombe, Weathering the Storm, Working Class Families from the
Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline, London, 1995 (excerpts
CCR)
E. Shorter
M. Spongberg, Feminising Venereal Disease: the body of the
prostitute in nineteenth-century medical discourse, New York,
1997
G. Sussman, Selling Mothers' Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in
France, 1715-1914, Urbana,1982