| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project is a pilot research on the historical significance of economic thought to the philanthropic activities conducted by women in early-nineteenth-century England and how it is represented in the literature of the same period. Heavily involved in the Abolitionist movement at the beginning of the century, women initiated the boycott of sugar consumption, while eagerly purchasing Wedgwood cameos as a sign of their politico-economical stance against the slave trade. Women’s keen sensitivity to economy reflects itself in the contemporary Abolitionist literature. The research from the summer of the second year centred around Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Martineau, whose writings redressed the contemporary male Unitarians’ idea of free trade, emphasising mutual interdependence of the employer and labourers and expanding women’s economic activities into the public sphere, where women sought to regulate the balance of spending and securing income in philanthropic activities.
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