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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: 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. |
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