Budgetary earmarking and the control of the extravagant woman in Australia, 1850-1920

Walker, Stephen Paul and Carnegie, Garry D. 2007. Budgetary earmarking and the control of the extravagant woman in Australia, 1850-1920. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 18 (2) , pp. 233-261. 10.1016/j.cpa.2005.10.003

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Abstract

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Australian women (and Melbournian women in particular) were chastised for extravagance in dress. Excessive expenditure on fashionable clothing was considered a threat to personal solvency and domestic tranquillity. Female profligacy was also deemed self indulgent and unpatriotic in periods of economic and military crisis. Drawing on Zelizer's [Zelizer VA. The social meaning of money. New York: Basic Books; 1994] study of The social meaning of money the paper examines how the state attempted to contain female extravagance in dress by re-orientating spending priorities in household budgets. The earmarking ideology of patriotic thrift was conveyed by apparatuses such as cultural and communications media, the political system and voluntary associations. The earmarking ideology represented an onslaught on fashionable dress, a means of asserting feminine identity in a patriarchal society. The study reveals budgetary earmarking as a social process, which is reflective and constitutive of gendered asymmetries of power in the home.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > DU Oceania (South Seas) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Women; Accounting; Budgetary earmarking; Ideology; Thrift; Dress; Australia
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1045-2354
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 23:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/38741

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