Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècle
Does the post-mortem inventory still have anything to teach us? The source, very well-known to historians of material culture and the book of the modern period, is certainly one of the best examples of the importance for gender historians to rethink the methodological tools available in order to pro...
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| description | Does the post-mortem inventory still have anything to teach us? The source, very well-known to historians of material culture and the book of the modern period, is certainly one of the best examples of the importance for gender historians to rethink the methodological tools available in order to process documents that, at first glance, appear to have revealed all their secrets. Using the case of the book-object as a starting point, the article proposes to revisit the paradox that almost systematically results from attempts to use inventories to identify the presence in domestic space of objects that are culturally gendered but rendered statically neutral by the treatment of the source. A more detailed analysis of the document shows that, far from constituting homogeneous groups of readers, the men and women who owned books diverged on at least three points—the number, the subject matter and the spatial location of their books—all of which testify to the contrasting relationships men and women had with regard to written culture in the modern era. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff2541ef94d849d4a3d24a91c69552532024-02-14T10:20:22ZfraAssociation MnémosyneGenre & Histoire2102-58863210.4000/genrehistoire.8326Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècleAurore PinceelDoes the post-mortem inventory still have anything to teach us? The source, very well-known to historians of material culture and the book of the modern period, is certainly one of the best examples of the importance for gender historians to rethink the methodological tools available in order to process documents that, at first glance, appear to have revealed all their secrets. Using the case of the book-object as a starting point, the article proposes to revisit the paradox that almost systematically results from attempts to use inventories to identify the presence in domestic space of objects that are culturally gendered but rendered statically neutral by the treatment of the source. A more detailed analysis of the document shows that, far from constituting homogeneous groups of readers, the men and women who owned books diverged on at least three points—the number, the subject matter and the spatial location of their books—all of which testify to the contrasting relationships men and women had with regard to written culture in the modern era.https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/8326material culturepost-mortem inventorybook18th centuryLille |
| spellingShingle | Aurore Pinceel Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècle Genre & Histoire material culture post-mortem inventory book 18th century Lille |
| title | Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècle |
| title_full | Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècle |
| title_fullStr | Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècle |
| title_full_unstemmed | Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècle |
| title_short | Curieux objet de genre, le livre et sa place dans des inventaires après décès à Lille au XVIIIe siècle |
| title_sort | curieux objet de genre le livre et sa place dans des inventaires apres deces a lille au xviiie siecle |
| topic | material culture post-mortem inventory book 18th century Lille |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/8326 |
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