Reason vs Revelation: Feminism, Malthus, and the New Poor Law                     in Narratives by Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

Dzelzainis, Ella

doi:10.16995/ntn.443

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“…The most eligible age of marriage however could not be fixed; but must depend entirely on circumstances and situation’ (Malthus, 1826, II, p. 276). This was hardly a feminist utopia, but there are strands of thought on men and women here that might explain more fully how and why later nineteenth‐century women as well as men extended and borrowed from Malthus's Essay ; not just in John Stuart Mill's political economy, for example, but also in Harriet Martineau's (Dzelzainis, 2006; Dzelzainis, 2016; Heyrendt‐Sherman, 2019).…”

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Malthus and gender

Bashford

2022

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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This article re-reads Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population for his explicit discussion of men and women, masculinity and femininity. A feminist reading is possible, but not undertaken here. Rather, the purpose is simply to demonstrate how 'gender' was Malthus's own object of inquiry. Historical actors, perhaps especially economic thinkers, often considered gender far more fully and explicitly than almost all subsequent analysts of them. It therefore remains not just insufficient, but empirically erroneous not to inquire into how 'men' and 'women' were considered, constructed, instructed, symbolised or valued by the historical actors we study, including those in the political economy canon.

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