Electronic Readings for HIS 560 Worlding the Middle Class

Week One

1. Raymond Williams, “Bourgeois” pp. 45-49 of his Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (London: Fontana, 1979)

2. Rana Faroohar, “The Scary New Rich” https://www.newsweek.com/unstable-and-less-liberal-global-middle-class-69469
3. Kerry Fivecoat-Campbell “Who is Middle Class and Why it Matters” http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2015/08/04/who-is-middle-class-and-why-it-matters/#146bfd625422
4. Sanjay Joshi, “The Middle Class: A History of Our Present” (original English of German translation published in the October 2014 issue of Welt-Sichten, Germany).

Strongly Recommended

Wikipedia entry on “middle class” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class

Week Two

Rius, Marx for Beginners extracts http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sj6/Middle Class Course/marx_for_beginners extracts.pdf

Week Eight The Middle Class at Home

1. Bonnie Smith, “Introduction” and “Domesticity: The Rhetoric of Reproduction,” from Ladies of the Leisure Class : The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century.
2. Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran” in Lila Abu Lughod ed. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Princeton, 1998).
3. Omnia Shakry, “Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt” in Lila Abu Lughod ed. Remaking Women.
4. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, “Recasting Women: An Introduction” in their Recasting Women (Delhi, 1989)
5. Sumanta Banerjee "Marginalization of Women’s Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Bengal" in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid ed. Recasting Women.