Rethinking the Two Spheres. An Historiographical Review

  • Florencia Peyrou
Keywords: Separate spheres; public; private; gender history; 19th Century.

Abstract

Feminist theories on the public/private divide thrived in United States’ academia from the 1960s, closely linking the private with a domestic sphere of reproduction, household tasks and family relations. Thus, started a rich and prolific historiographical trend that has produced important theoretical and methodological debates and has fostered diverse research lines in different national academic contexts. The public/private binary continues to be a strong analytic framework, although overlapped by contesting and diverse references. The present bibliographic revision intends to trace the main debates and ways of approaching the topic, focusing on the 19th Century, that have taken place in the United States, Britain, France and Spain.

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Published
2020-02-17
How to Cite
Peyrou F. (2020). Rethinking the Two Spheres. An Historiographical Review. Historia y Política, 42, 359-385. https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.42.13