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AbstractThis article seeks to demonstrate that the gendered structuring of property relations in England can be understood in terms of the historical development of modes of production and reproduction. Society at the barbarian chiefdom, feudal, and capitalist stages of development is analysed. It is argued that gender relations within barbarian chiefdoms were contradictory, and that these contradictions had detrimental implications for women under feudalism. Given this historical legacy, it is then argued that the specificity of capitalist property rights laid the basis for the division of classes along the lines of gender.

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1989.tb00017.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractWe usually think that we know what ‘the state’ is, even when we embark on a theoretical quest for it. Somehow, the state is closely associated with Government ‐ including bureaucracy and army. Or we sometimes think of it differently, in terms of city‐state or nation‐state. I had the first notion in mind when I started to research the socioeconomic context of the making of the U.S. constitution. But the historical research forced me to face the vagueness of the concept, and to recognize that it is not only useless, but actually harmful in our understanding of modern societies. This paper is made‐up of three parts: the historical narrative of U.S. constitution‐making is sandwiched between, first, a deconstruction of the concept of state and, third, an attempt at establishing a new concept of state. I discard along the way the dichotomies of state/civil society and base/superstructure. And I argue for a close integration of theory and history in so

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1989.tb00018.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractFor some, the history of clerical work epitomizes the way in which technological change and the division of labor result in the deskilling and degradation of work. This paper argues that this perception of clerical deskilling is mistaken, the result of an inaccurate portrayal of traditional clerking, and of a theoretical tendency to (mis)read declines in the prestige and pay of an occupation as stemming from changes in skill. Focusing on Victorian clerks’ own descriptions of their work, and moving to the present period, the paper offers an alternative reading of clerical history and of the dynamics of occupational declin

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1989.tb00019.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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We welcome the new journalGender and Historywhose opening editorial we are happy to reprint here since it raises theoretical and methodological issues of the greatest intellectual and practical importance.Gender and Historywill examine historical questions about femininity and masculinity and how 'societies have been shaped by the relations of power between women and men’, a distinctive area of enquiry, and one that requires continued emphasis inallhistorical and sociological investigation

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1989.tb00020.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY