The Women of Marienthal.: A Reinterpretation of the Sociographic Study by Marie Jahoda, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld and Hans Zeisel.
Keywords:
Interwar crisis, Sociography, Gender studies, Economic psychology, Domestic interrelationshipsCopyright (c) 2023 Daniel Villalba Gómez
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Abstract
A reconsideration of the role of women during the crisis that affected Europe at the beginning of the 1930s has become an imperative for history. With such a premise in mind, this article focuses specifically on the female population of the Austrian industrial locality of Marienthal. Thus, the data of the famous sociographic study on "the unemployed" published by Marie Jahoda, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld and Hans Zeisel are reinterpreted, deconstructing the patriarchal analytical codes that structure it. And, as a result, the effects of unemployment on them are analysed along three main points: the domestic economic management, the notion of time and psychological conditions, and, finally, the gender-based abuse in marriages.
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