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Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Domestication of Free Labor Ideology

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From: Legacy
Date: 20021031
Author:Naomi, Rachel

Through much of her voluminous writing, Harriet Beecher Stowe expressed her concern with the subject of work -- its structure, its moral imperative, its regional variations, and its impact on family life. Her utopian vision of a free and democratic labor system informed her critique of slavery an d shaped her analysis of the "woman's sphere." This essay foregrounds Stowe's central preoccupation with the labor questions of her own day and, in so doing, engages a tradition of feminist literary scholarship that invests Stowe's work with anti-commercial meanings. Rather than a subversive critic of ...

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