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Dissertation Information for Tamara Michelle Zwick

NAME:
- Tamara Michelle Zwick

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2004)

ADVISORS:
- David Warren Sabean

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Carole Pateman
- Saul P. Friedlander
- David N. Myers

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The correspondence between public and private: Women, kinship, and Buergertum in early nineteenth-century Hamburg

Abstract: This dissertation explores the role that women played in the formation of an emerging bourgeois identity in nineteenth-century Germany. It argues that middle-class women maintained extensive kin and social networks that consolidated interfamilial and class relations. In order to redress the absence of women from the enormous body of scholarly work written on the German middle class ( Bürger ) over the past twenty years, a literature which focuses on the development of liberalism and the "public face of the Bürgertum ," this study looks at a variety of semi-public fora--letters, open tables, social circles--through which women shaped social culture in Hamburg. This work engages with social, cultural, and gender history of the German Bürgertum by incorporating a range of scholarship, including kinship theory and the history of the family, literary analysis, debates on public/private spheres and civil society, and current discussions concerning the Bürger . More specifically, this work addresses the relationship among kinship, class, and gender as key to understanding the new bourgeoisie of the nineteenth century.

The dissertation opens with an analysis of a transnational exchange of letters between Hamburg Enlightenment figure Caspar Voght and French salonière Germaine de Staël in the early nineteenth century and its reception by twentieth-century scholars. Beginning with a single sentence by Caspar Voght--"I have always had an aversion for women tormented with the desire to have a historical existence"--this study uses French and German sources to explore the foundation of Voght's aversion to women determined to have a public reputation and argues that his attitude represents a broader European phenomenon. It then examines the social, intellectual and cultural life of early nineteenth-century Hamburg in ever broadening circles--two women from Hamburg's upper bourgeoisie corresponding with one another over nearly forty years, a cosmopolitan social circle which met regularly at the country estate of Neumühlen , and finally the greater legacy of the families of the upper bourgeoisie as narrated in a specific genre-- Familienbildungsbücher --in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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