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Female agency in the urban economy : gender in European towns, 1640-1830 / edited by Deborah Simonton and Anne Montenach.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 17.
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Europe--Economic conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Europe--Social conditions.
- Cities and towns--Europe--History.
- Cities and towns.
- Sex role--Europe--History.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (549 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Claiming spaces : markets and brokerage
- pt. 2. Negotiating the urban economy : constraints and opportunities
- pt. 3. Exploring relationships : kinship and community.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-27502-9
- 0-203-11052-8
- 1-299-48075-6
- 1-136-27503-7
- 9780203110522
- OCLC:
- 841521417
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