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Did She Donkeystone Her Doorstep?: The Victorian Ideal Of Domesticity And The Reality Of Working Class Women's Lives, Rebecca Binder
Did She Donkeystone Her Doorstep?: The Victorian Ideal Of Domesticity And The Reality Of Working Class Women's Lives, Rebecca Binder
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My Senior Scholars is an investigation of the ideology of domesticity and behavior of married working class women in specific textile districts in England between 1851 and 1881. In particular, I examined which working class women the ideology encompassed, and to what extent these women followed the ideology. In order to understand the ideology of domesticity, certain aspects of working class life have to be taken into consideration. The changing economic and social spheres of married women, divisions within the working class, which separate the average worker from the elite segments of the working class (hereafter referred to as the …