Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century
Bonnie G. Smith presents a focused history of bourgeois women in nineteenth-century northern France. Centering on the lives of the bourgeoises, this study examines how gender, class, and leisure shaped women’s place within a changing French society.
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Ladies of the Leisure Class explores the bourgeoises of northern France during the nineteenth century.
Bonnie G. Smith focuses on women’s lives within the social and economic world of the bourgeoisie.
The book considers leisure, class, and gender as important parts of nineteenth-century French history.
It offers a specialized historical study of society and women in northern France.
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