Female Agency in the Urban Economy: Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830 (Routledge Research in Gender and History)
. Ed(S): Simonton, Deborah; Montenach, Anne
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paperback. Editor(s): Simonton, Deborah; Montenach, Anne. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white tables, 13 black & white halftones, 3 bla. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBTK; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds’ regulations, affected women’s participation in the urban economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women – which is an essential component of female agency – was very limited. Yet these chapters draw attention to how women navigated these gendered ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138952461
SKU
V9781138952461
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99-1
About . Ed(S): Simonton, Deborah; Montenach, Anne
Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor in History, University of Southern Denmark and leads the Gender in the European Town Network. Anne Montenach is an Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Aix-Marseille University.
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‘This collection broadens our knowledge about women in 18th-century towns by extending the geographic focus to Scandinavia and central Europe. The contributors examine women’s experiences and contributions to a variety of urban settings and provide insight into women’s roles as financial brokers, peddlers, migrants, medical consumers, and landholders. The essays put gender squarely at the center of the development of ... Read more