Seminar: Lindsay Keiter and Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor: The Emergence of the Marriage Market, 18.01.2022, virtual space

The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar-Series (Web)
Time: 18.01.2022, 5:15 PM (Time-zone America/NY)/23:15 Uhr in Europe
Venue: virtual space, via Boston
When did Americans begin using the term „the marriage market,“ and what does that tell us about society at the time? This article-in-progress traces the emergence of the concept of marriage as a market subject to supply and demand to the early 19th century.
Yet even as they referred to the marriage market, with its impersonal implications, many Americans resisted its complete commercialization. Marriage brokers – professional matchmakers – and matrimonial advertising attracted both clients and controversy. The metaphor of the marriage market reflected the entanglement of the sentimental home created by marriage and the competitive chaos of the expanding antebellum economy.

  • Author: Lindsay Keiter, Pennsylvania State University – Altoona (Web)
  • Comment: Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of California – Davis
This semiar is a online event. The virtual program will be hosted on the video conference platform Zoom. Link to the registration (Web). Registrants will receive a confirmation message with attendance information.
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar-Series (Web)
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar-series ist hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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