Family Fictions and Family Facts

Name: Family Fictions and Family Facts
Author: Brian (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA) Cooper

Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859

Gebonden Engels 2007 1e druk 9780415150583

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Classical political economy rests on the assumption that the market and the family are overlapping and mutually dependent realms, dominated in turn by economic men and domestic women. Here, Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Drawing on a wide range of sources - novels, books on etiquette and statistical sources, as well as works of economics - the book examines the impacts of these different forms on contemporary debate and will be of interest to historians of economic thought, feminist economics and those interested in rhetoric and economics.