“为了漂亮的衣服”:上层阶级女性的消费主义和尤兹埃利案件1898年报纸报道中的堕胎犯罪

IF 0.3 3区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY
Lee Michael‐Berger
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1898年春天,已婚的伦敦精英艾米莉·伊迪丝·乌齐埃利堕胎,这在当时是非法的。乌齐埃利夫人死于手术,堕胎医生柯林斯被控谋杀。本文探讨了维多利亚时代晚期英国女性观念、消费主义观念和堕胎犯罪之间的相互联系。它表明,当代关于性别和高能量消费的话语渗透并塑造了堕胎犯罪的流行话语,堕胎被描述为与违反家庭生活密切相关。通过对Uzielli案件的新闻报道的探索,我展示了女性新近获得的在伦敦西区街道和购物中心散步的自由,与她们所谓的通过堕胎手段独立于丈夫控制家庭规模的自由是并行的。堕胎采购被描述为这种“女性化”消费行为的另一种表现。
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‘For Pretty Frocks’: Upper Class Female Consumerism and the Criminality of Abortions in Newspaper Reports of the Uzielli Case 1898
Abstract In the spring of 1898, Emily Edith Uzielli, a married member of the London elite, underwent an abortion, which was illegal at the time. Mrs Uzielli died as a result of the procedure, and the abortionist, Dr Collins, was accused of murder. This article examines the interconnectivity between conceptions of femininity and ideas on consumerism and the criminality of abortions in late Victorian England. It demonstrates that contemporary discourses of gender and high‐powered consumption infiltrated and shaped the popular discourse of the criminality of abortions, which was depicted as closely linked to transgressions of domesticity. Through the exploration of press representations of the Uzielli case, I show that women's newly acquired liberty of promenading West End streets and shopping centres were paralleled with their alleged freedom to control family size, independently of their husbands, through the means of abortion. Abortion procuring was portrayed as yet another manifestation of such ‘feminine’ consumer practices.
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Gender and History
Gender and History Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Gender & History is now established as the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. Spanning epochs and continents, Gender & History examines changing conceptions of gender, and maps the dialogue between femininities, masculinities and their historical contexts. The journal publishes rigorous and readable articles both on particular episodes in gender history and on broader methodological questions which have ramifications for the discipline as a whole.
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