Służba i milczenie

• Authors: Carolyn Steedman

Title variants

EN

On Service and Silences

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Tekst jest wstępnym rozdziałem z książki Carolyn Steedman „Służąca i jej pan. Miłość i praca w Anglii wieku industrialnego” (Master and Servant. Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age). Tytułowa służąca to Phoebe Beatson, której losy Steedman rekonstruuje na podstawie dziennika jej pracodawcy – pastora Johna Murgatroyda. Zestawiając to świadectwo z innymi dokumentami życia społecznego epoki, Steedman pisze historię klasy pominiętą w tradycyjnych marksistowskich historiografiach – historię kobiecej służby domowej.

EN

A translated chapter of Carolyn Steedman’s book Master and Servant. Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age. This text reconstructs the experience of a 18th-century servant, Phoebe Beatson, on the basis of a diary of John Murgatroyd, her employer. Confronting this testimony with other documents of social life, Steedman constructs a history of a class overlooked by traditional Marxist historiography – female domestic servants.

Keywords

PL

historia społeczna; historia kobiet; służba domowa; dokument osobisty

EN

social history; women history; domestic servant; life writing; social history; women history; domestic servant; life writing

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Praktyka Teoretyczna
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 64-83

Dates

published

2017-03-15

Contributors

author

Carolyn Steedman

• History Department University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/prt.2017.1.3