Servants of Culture

Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914

Ambika Natarajan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

307 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-993-2 (ISBN)

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In nineteenth century Cisleithanian Austria, poor, working-class women underwent mass migrations from the countryside to urban centers for menial or unskilled labor jobs. Through legal provisions on women’s work in the Habsburg Empire, there was an increase in the policing and surveillance of what was previously a gender-neutral career, turning it into one dominated by thousands of female rural migrants. Servants of Culture provides an account of Habsburg servant law since the eighteenth century and uncovers the paternalistic and maternalistic assumptions and anxieties which turned the interest of socio-political players in improving poor living and working conditions into practices that created restrictive gender and class hierarchies. Through pioneering analysis of the agendas of medical experts, police, socialists, feminists, legal reformers, and even serial killers, this volume puts forth a neglected history of the state of domestic service discourse at the turn of the 19th century and how it shaped and continues to shape the surveillance of women.

Ambika Natarajan is a Research Associate at the University of Mumbai-Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai, India. She has a PhD in history of science from Oregon State University and graduate degrees in biotechnology and English. She has taught courses in the history and philosophy of science, ethics, American religious history, and bio-statistics internationally.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. The Itinerant Maidservant

Chapter 2. Cultural Feminization

Chapter 3. Demographic Feminization

Chapter 4. The Number Game

Chapter 5. The Servant Question

Chapter 6. Victims and Perpetrators

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-80073-993-1 / 1800739931
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-993-2 / 9781800739932
Zustand	Neuware