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hsi_feng

public private affairs

Oct 31, 2007 20:59

The public as an immoral domain meant rather different things to women and men. For women, it was where one risked losing virtue, dirtying oneself.... The public and the idea of disgrace were closely allied. The public for a bourgeois man had a different moral tone. By going out in public, or “losing yourself in public,” as the phrase occurred in ( Read more... )

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neverletmedown November 1 2007, 16:36:45 UTC

Ahhh yes. Gendered spheres - a topic much covered in my beloved Canadian Social History and BC History classes that I took last year.

There's a great book on this called "Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954 (Studies in Gender and History)" which shows how this manifested in Vancouver, albeit, after the Victorian age.