{"id":66,"date":"2024-09-29T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=66"},"modified":"2024-10-13T21:35:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T21:35:49","slug":"press-release","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/chapter\/press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Sellman \u2013 Davidoff and Hall, Family Fortunes"},"content":{"raw":"<h1><strong>The Lasting Legacy of <em>Family Fortunes<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_67\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"188\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516-188x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-67 size-medium\" \/> Book Cover of Family Fortunes[\/caption]\r\n<h2>Historiography Connections<\/h2>\r\nBirmingham, England; Counties of Suffolk and Essex, England\r\n<h2>Geographic Coverage<\/h2>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d418062.64948605787!2d-2.100644600552868!3d52.48010449887708!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4870bb76f6e26da7%3A0x2e523b746bb575e1!2sBirmingham%20Metropolitan%20Area%2C%20UK!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1727639904102!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1224258.1508015515!2d0.8396013269090368!3d52.4063268872991!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x47d81562eecf1ae1%3A0xb8cf4391eed96afa!2sSuffolk%2C%20UK!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1727639832763!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1314475.4698216964!2d0.4674120289582807!3d52.16939735583913!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x47d85627fe870dd3%3A0x4257cb3847ee5079!2sEssex%2C%20UK!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1727639749117!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>Citation for First Edition\/Printing\r\n<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/_\/BZOPQgAACAAJ?hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj-69y6ltWIAxWDk4kEHZAVJ2QQre8FegQIDxAI\">Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. 1987. <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850<\/em>. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.<\/a>\r\n<h2>Press Release<\/h2>\r\nLeonore Davidoff was a historian of sociology, specializing in social history, gender studies, and women\u2019s history. Her MA from the London School of Economics included \u201ca substantial 300 page dissertation\u201d called \u201cThe Employment of Married Women,\u201d which was a topic never researched before then. Davidoff became a Senior Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College and published numerous articles and a book, which were all highly influential in the newly emerging field of gender history. In 1987 she and Catherine Hall published <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850.<a href=\"#_edn1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nCatherine Hall began her education at the University of Sussex and completed it at the University of Birmingham, where she wrote <em>Family Fortunes <\/em>with Davidoff. Her specializations are gender history, colonialism, and British history. She is currently emerita professor of British social and cultural history and chair of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.<a href=\"#_edn2\">[2]<\/a>\r\n<h3>Content<\/h3>\r\n<em>Family Fortunes<\/em> explores the development of England\u2019s middle-class from 1780-1850 by focusing on two distinct areas: the urban city of Birmingham and the rural counties of Essex and Suffolk. Called \u201cthe most influential work in British gender history,\u201d it was groundbreaking by arguing that women had an essential contribution to family businesses and the development of England\u2019s capitalist economy.<a href=\"#_edn1\">[3]<\/a> Another important argument is the concept of \u201cseparate spheres,\u201d wherein the public sphere is inhabited by men and the private sphere by women, an idea which was a key part of middle-class identity.<a href=\"#_edn2\">[4]<\/a>\r\n<h3>Methods<\/h3>\r\nDavidoff and Hall divided their book into three sections: \u201cReligion and Ideology,\u201d \u201cEconomic Structure and Opportunity,\u201d and \u201cEveryday Life: Gender in Action.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\">[5]<\/a> Within these sections, the authors explore numerous topics by using two case studies, the industrial city of Birmingham and the rural counties of Suffolk and Essex. As Davidoff and Hall write, <em>Family Fortunes<\/em> \u201cargues for the centrality of the sexual division of labour within families for the development of capitalist enterprise.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn2\">[6]<\/a> They support this argument by examining families, both the smaller unit of parents and children and the wider kinship ties that formed communities. To do so, they \u201cattempted to reconstitute the world as provincial middle-class people saw it, experienced it and made sense of it\u201d with the goal of showcasing how important gender was, at a time when the field of gender history was just beginning.<a href=\"#_edn3\">[7]<\/a>\r\n<h3>Critiques<\/h3>\r\nBecause <em>Family Fortunes<\/em> was published early in the development of gender and women\u2019s history as accepted fields of study, more recent research has shown some of its claims to be partially or fully incorrect. For example, it has since been found that the \u201cseemingly stark legal sanctions against female property-holding were modified, subverted and manipulated in practice.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\">[8]<\/a> The book neglected to include the impacts of politics on the middle-class, overstated the differences between the middle and upper classes, and perhaps failed to fully recognize the development of the middle-class prior to the year 1780.<a href=\"#_edn2\">[9]<\/a>\r\n<h3>Impact on Historiography<\/h3>\r\nThe impact of <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Midde Class 1780-1850 <\/em>on the study of women\u2019s and gender history can scarcely be overstated. It inspired and continues to inspire important scholarship, as \u201cthe consequence of a study which pushed\u2026upon the boundaries of and possibilities of gender history in 1987.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\">[10]<\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref1\">[1]<\/a> Gleadle, 779.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref2\">[2]<\/a> Gleadle, 776-777.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref1\">[3]<\/a> Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. 1987. <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850. <\/em>Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 6-7.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref2\">[4]<\/a> Davidoff and Hall, 13.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref3\">[5]<\/a> Davidoff and Hall, 28-29.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref1\">[6]<\/a> Gleadle, Kathryn. \"Revisiting Family Fortunes: Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of L. Davidoff &amp; C. Hall (1987) Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850.\" <em>Women's History Review<\/em> <em>16<\/em>, no. 5 (2007): 773-782. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09612020701447848\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09612020701447848<\/a>, 773.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref2\">[7]<\/a> Twells, Alison. \"Book Reviews.\" <em>Gender and History<\/em> <em>15<\/em>, no. 2 (2003): 371-390. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-0424.00309\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-0424.00309<\/a>, 386-387.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref1\">[8]<\/a> Glucksmann, Miriam. \"Leonore Davidoff 1932 -2014.\" University of Essex. University of Essex, October 2014. https:\/\/www1.essex.ac.uk\/news\/event.aspx?e_id=6991.\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"#_ednref2\">[9]<\/a> McKie, Anna. \"Interview with Catherine Hall.\" Times Higher Education. Times Higher Education, October 4, 2021. https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/unijobs\/article\/interview-with-catherine-hall.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<h1><strong>The Lasting Legacy of <em>Family Fortunes<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516-188x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-67 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516-188x300.png 188w, https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516-643x1024.png 643w, https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516-65x103.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516-225x358.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516-350x557.png 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-20-195516.png 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book Cover of Family Fortunes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Historiography Connections<\/h2>\n<p>Birmingham, England; Counties of Suffolk and Essex, England<\/p>\n<h2>Geographic Coverage<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d418062.64948605787!2d-2.100644600552868!3d52.48010449887708!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4870bb76f6e26da7%3A0x2e523b746bb575e1!2sBirmingham%20Metropolitan%20Area%2C%20UK!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1727639904102!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1224258.1508015515!2d0.8396013269090368!3d52.4063268872991!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x47d81562eecf1ae1%3A0xb8cf4391eed96afa!2sSuffolk%2C%20UK!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1727639832763!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1314475.4698216964!2d0.4674120289582807!3d52.16939735583913!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x47d85627fe870dd3%3A0x4257cb3847ee5079!2sEssex%2C%20UK!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1727639749117!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Citation for First Edition\/Printing<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/_\/BZOPQgAACAAJ?hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj-69y6ltWIAxWDk4kEHZAVJ2QQre8FegQIDxAI\">Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. 1987. <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850<\/em>. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Press Release<\/h2>\n<p>Leonore Davidoff was a historian of sociology, specializing in social history, gender studies, and women\u2019s history. Her MA from the London School of Economics included \u201ca substantial 300 page dissertation\u201d called \u201cThe Employment of Married Women,\u201d which was a topic never researched before then. Davidoff became a Senior Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College and published numerous articles and a book, which were all highly influential in the newly emerging field of gender history. In 1987 she and Catherine Hall published <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850.<a href=\"#_edn1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Catherine Hall began her education at the University of Sussex and completed it at the University of Birmingham, where she wrote <em>Family Fortunes <\/em>with Davidoff. Her specializations are gender history, colonialism, and British history. She is currently emerita professor of British social and cultural history and chair of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.<a href=\"#_edn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Content<\/h3>\n<p><em>Family Fortunes<\/em> explores the development of England\u2019s middle-class from 1780-1850 by focusing on two distinct areas: the urban city of Birmingham and the rural counties of Essex and Suffolk. Called \u201cthe most influential work in British gender history,\u201d it was groundbreaking by arguing that women had an essential contribution to family businesses and the development of England\u2019s capitalist economy.<a href=\"#_edn1\">[3]<\/a> Another important argument is the concept of \u201cseparate spheres,\u201d wherein the public sphere is inhabited by men and the private sphere by women, an idea which was a key part of middle-class identity.<a href=\"#_edn2\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Methods<\/h3>\n<p>Davidoff and Hall divided their book into three sections: \u201cReligion and Ideology,\u201d \u201cEconomic Structure and Opportunity,\u201d and \u201cEveryday Life: Gender in Action.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\">[5]<\/a> Within these sections, the authors explore numerous topics by using two case studies, the industrial city of Birmingham and the rural counties of Suffolk and Essex. As Davidoff and Hall write, <em>Family Fortunes<\/em> \u201cargues for the centrality of the sexual division of labour within families for the development of capitalist enterprise.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn2\">[6]<\/a> They support this argument by examining families, both the smaller unit of parents and children and the wider kinship ties that formed communities. To do so, they \u201cattempted to reconstitute the world as provincial middle-class people saw it, experienced it and made sense of it\u201d with the goal of showcasing how important gender was, at a time when the field of gender history was just beginning.<a href=\"#_edn3\">[7]<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Critiques<\/h3>\n<p>Because <em>Family Fortunes<\/em> was published early in the development of gender and women\u2019s history as accepted fields of study, more recent research has shown some of its claims to be partially or fully incorrect. For example, it has since been found that the \u201cseemingly stark legal sanctions against female property-holding were modified, subverted and manipulated in practice.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\">[8]<\/a> The book neglected to include the impacts of politics on the middle-class, overstated the differences between the middle and upper classes, and perhaps failed to fully recognize the development of the middle-class prior to the year 1780.<a href=\"#_edn2\">[9]<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Impact on Historiography<\/h3>\n<p>The impact of <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Midde Class 1780-1850 <\/em>on the study of women\u2019s and gender history can scarcely be overstated. It inspired and continues to inspire important scholarship, as \u201cthe consequence of a study which pushed\u2026upon the boundaries of and possibilities of gender history in 1987.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\">[10]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\">[1]<\/a> Gleadle, 779.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\">[2]<\/a> Gleadle, 776-777.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\">[3]<\/a> Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. 1987. <em>Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850. <\/em>Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 6-7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\">[4]<\/a> Davidoff and Hall, 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref3\">[5]<\/a> Davidoff and Hall, 28-29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\">[6]<\/a> Gleadle, Kathryn. &#8220;Revisiting Family Fortunes: Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of L. Davidoff &amp; C. Hall (1987) Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850.&#8221; <em>Women&#8217;s History Review<\/em> <em>16<\/em>, no. 5 (2007): 773-782. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09612020701447848\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09612020701447848<\/a>, 773.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\">[7]<\/a> Twells, Alison. &#8220;Book Reviews.&#8221; <em>Gender and History<\/em> <em>15<\/em>, no. 2 (2003): 371-390. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-0424.00309\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-0424.00309<\/a>, 386-387.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\">[8]<\/a> Glucksmann, Miriam. &#8220;Leonore Davidoff 1932 -2014.&#8221; University of Essex. University of Essex, October 2014. https:\/\/www1.essex.ac.uk\/news\/event.aspx?e_id=6991.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\">[9]<\/a> McKie, Anna. &#8220;Interview with Catherine Hall.&#8221; Times Higher Education. 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