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Author : Susan Ostrander
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780877224754
Although these women are economically and socially powerful, they are for the most part unliberated.
Author : Clifton Hood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231542951
A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and through their role in building New York's cultural and economic foundations. In Pursuit of Privilege describes the famous and infamous characters and events at the center of this extraordinary history, from the elite families and wealthy tycoons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the Wall Street executives of today. From the start, upper-class New Yorkers have been open and aggressive in their behavior, keen on attaining prestige, power, and wealth. Clifton Hood sharpens this characterization by merging a history of the New York economy in the eighteenth century with the story of Wall Street's emergence as an international financial center in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the dominance of New York's financial and service sectors in the 1980s. Bringing together several decades of upheaval and change, he shows that New York's upper class did not rise exclusively from the Gilded Age but rather from a relentless pursuit of privilege, affecting not just the urban elite but the city's entire cultural, economic, and political fabric.
Author : Adelaide M. Cromwell
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1610752937
Author : Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403937544
This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.
Author : Wednesday Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476762715
"Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--
Author : Marilyn Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social perception in old age
ISBN : OCLC:706944393
Author : Irene Cieraad
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815629036
In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines—art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology—Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays go beyond the discussion of conventional issues such as aesthetics and social standing. At Home takes an in-depth anthropological look at how different cultures use their homes as a visual model of the culture's social structure.
Author : Vincent J. Adesso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135059132
Significant scientific advances have been made in understanding psychological aspects of women's health, and knowledge gained will be of relevance not only to women's health but to the promotion of health and illness prevention and treatment for all individuals. The current cutting-edge research detailed in this volume is intended to stimulate new thinking and research in women's health from biopsychosocial perspectives. Drawing on research from internationally respected experts, topics covered include ageing, stress, heart disease, cancer, drugs, weight regulation and body image, pain, menstruation, sexuality and infertility, and AIDS.
Author : Vivien Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521586801
This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.
Author : Arlene Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773558489
The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. This book goes beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, delving into the intense human elements of a cultural shift and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era.
Author : Diana Kendall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461645238
The Power of Good Deeds allows us to see behind the media image of upper-class women and to observe how these women use their social power not only to benefit other, less-fortunate people, but also to benefit themselves and their families. Kendall's ethnographic research yields the personal narratives of elite women as they describe their views on philanthropy, the need for exclusivity in their by-invitation-only volunteer organizations (such as the Junior League and The Links), their childhood experiences and college years in prestigious schools and sororities, and the debutante presentations and other upper-class rituals in which they participate. By participating in meetings and social functions with elite women in several Texas cities, and conducting systematic interviews, the author gained unprecedented access to elite women across racial and ethnic categories. The Power of Good Deeds provides new insights and greater depth to our knowledge about the upper classes and how the charitable activities of privileged women contribute to the process of legitimization, maintaining an ideology of class-based and race-based segregation in the United States.
Author : Nick Foulkes
Publisher : Assouline Books & Gifts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : United States
ISBN : 2759402886
High Society explores the intrigue of New York's upper class society and culture.
Author : Beverley Skeggs
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761955127
Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power. Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an accurate representation of power relations in modern society. The book questions how theoretical frameworks are generated for understanding how women live and produce themselves through social and cultural relations. It uses detailed ethnographic research to explain how `real' women inhabit and occupy the social and cultural posit
Author : Amany Abdelrazek-Alsiefy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031386657
This book discusses Egyptian Muslim women’s dress as the social, political and ideological signifier of the changing attitudes towards Western modernity. It employs women’s clothing styles as a feminist act that provides rich insights into the power and limits of legal regulations and hegemonic discourses in constructing gendered and cultural borders in the modern Egyptian public sphere. Furthermore, through highlighting marginalized but significant models and historical moments of cultural exchange between Muslim and Western cultures through female dress, the book tells a third story beyond the binary model of an assumed modest oppressed traditional Muslim woman vis-à-vis consumer emancipated modern Western woman in mainstream Western discourse and literary representation.
Author : Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004128538
This text is an original investigation in the complex relationship between women, gender, and language in a Muslim, multilingual, and multicultural setting. Moroccan women's use of monolingualism (oral literature) and multilingualism (code-switching) reflects their agency and gender-role subversion in a heavily patriarchal society.