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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: WOMEN AND WORK Volume 2 THE INCORPORATED WIFE THE INCORPORATED WIFE Edited by HILARY CALLAN and SHIRLEY ARDENER First published in 1984 by Croom Helm This edition first published in 2022 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1984 Shirley Ardener, Janice Brownfoot, Hilary Callan, Isobel Clark, Beverley Gartrell, Deborah Kirkwood, Mona Macmillan, Lidia Sciama, Soraya Tremayne, Malcolm Young All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-032-27038-8 (Set) ISBN: 978-1-032-29552-7 (Volume 2) (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-29807-8 (Volume 2) (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-30214-8 (Volume 2) (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003302148 Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. THE INCORPORATED WIFE The Perfect Wife Audrey Blackman, 1983. THE INCORPORATEDWIFE EDITED BY HILARY CALL AN & SHIRLEY ARDENER V CROOM HELM London •Sydney •Dover, New Hampshire In association with the CENTRE FOR CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH ON WOMEN Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford ©1984 Shirley Ardener, Janice Brownfoot, Hilary Callen, Isobel Clark, Beverley Gartrell, Deborah Kirkwood, Mona Macmillan, Lidia Sciama, Soraya Tremayne, Malcolm Young. Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AT Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd, First Floor, 139 King St., Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia Croom Helm, 51 Washington Street, Dover, New Hampshire 03820, USA Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: The Incorporated wife. Bibliography: p. Includes index f 1. Wives — Great Britain — Effect of husband's employment on. 2. Wives - Effect of husband's employment on. 3. Wives — Great Britain — Social conditions. 4. Wives — Social conditions. I. Ardener, Shirley. II. Callan, Hilary. HQ759.I47 1984 306.8'72 84-12743 ISBN 0-7099-0521-1 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The Incorporated wife. 1. Husbands-Employment 2. Wives I. Ardener, Shirley II. Callen, Hilary 306.8'72 HD4901 ISBN 0-7099-0521-1 This volume, the first in a new series established by the Centre for Cross- Cultural Research on Women at Queen Elizabeth House Oxford, is based on papers presented at a work shop held in 1981, with the support of the Social Science Research Council. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Billing & Sons Limited, Worcester. CONTENTS Preface i Shirley Ardener 1. Introduction Hilary Callan i Incorporation: constituting the problem - Wives as fiction: wives in fiction - Private and public spheres again - The proper recognition of the personal - Hierarchy and representation - The boundaries of the system - Becoming and being - 'Wives talk' - The moral transaction: implications for a theory of marriage. 2. Incorporation and Exclusion: Oxford Academics' Wives Shirley Ardener 27 Introduction - The nineteenth century - The early twentieth century - After World War I - The Second World War and after - College spaces - 'A life of their own' - Small talk - Final remarks. 3. Ambivalence and Dedication: Academic Wives in Cambridge University, 1870-1970 Lidia Sciama 50 Introduction: the background - Women as scholars and women as wives - From clerics to professional academics: the transformation of the don - Cambridge i960-1970 - Academic entertaining: a breakdown in reciprocity? - Conclusion: the compensations. 4. Police Wives: A Reflection of Police Concepts of Order and Control Malcolm Young 6j Introduction - Categories of wives - In the country: the 'single-beat' wife - On the estate - The owner/occupier wife - How they marry: whom they marry - Conclusion. 5. Camp Followers: A Note on Wives of the Armed Services Mona Macmillan 89 Introduction - The long road to recognition - Wifehood and motherhood - 'Womanly' qualities in a 'man's world' - Conclusion: ways of organizing in the 1980's. 6. The Suitable Wife: Preparation for Marriage in London and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe Deborah Kirkwood 106 Introduction - Learning for marriage - A 'Finishing School' in London: 1890-1950 - A Homecraft School in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe: 1943-1981 - Contrast and comparison - 'Good' wife, 'suitable wife' or 'Superwife'? - Conclusion.