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Historian Martine Segalen developed a chart to describe how the nineteenth-century middle class divided activities and even emotional qualities into private and public spheres:
| Private Sphere | Public Sphere |
| Home | Outside world |
| Leisure time | Working time |
| Family | Nonfamily relations |
| Personal and intimate relationships | Impersonal and anonymous relationships |
| Proximity | Distance |
| Legitimate love and sexuality | Illegitimate sexuality |
| Feeling and irrationality | Rationality and efficiency |
| Morality | Immorality |
| Warmth, light, and softness, harmony and wholeness | Division and dissonance |
| Natural and sincere life | Artificial and affected life |
Source: Martine Segalen, "The Family in the Industrial Revolution," in The Impact of Modernity, volume 2 of A History of the Family, edited by Andre Burguiere, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Segalen, and Francoise Zonabend, translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison, Rosemary Morris, and Andrew Wilson (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996), pp. 400-401.
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