CASH
Currency and Culture in Historical Perspectives

Honors H-304 spring 2007
Rebecca L. Spang, IU History

 

 

Introduction

Seminars

Assignments

Useful Links

WEEK SIX: MONEY IN THE FAMILY

Required Reading:
Lloyd DeMause, “Money as a Poison Container,” Journal of Psychohistory (1988), on-line.
M. Finn, “Working-class Women and the Contest for Consumer Control in Victorian County Courts,” Past & Present, 161 (1998), 116-154.
V. Zelizer, “The Social Meaning of Money: ‘Special Monies’,” American Journal of Sociology 95 (Sept. 1989), 342-377 [JSTOR]. The first part of this article is a somewhat lengthy review of classics in the field; the second part focuses on wives’ access to money in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Further Reading:
E. Borneman, ed., The Psychoanalysis of Money (1976).
David W. Krueger, "Money, Meanings, and Madness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective," Psychoanalytic Review (summer 1991), pp. 209-225.
V. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (1994).
V. Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money (1997) [parts of this are available on-line from Google Books]
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Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis Conference: Money and Greed