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Title
Women's work and rights in early modern urban Europe / Anna Bellavitis ; translated by Clelia Boscolo.
Uniform Title
Lavoro delle donne nelle città dell'Europa moderna. English
ISBN
9783319965413 (electronic book)
3319965417 (electronic book)
9783319965406
3319965409
Published
Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3 doi
Call Number
HD6134
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.4094
Summary
In the last decades, women's role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women's roles in economic urban activities. Covering a wide area of early modern Europe, from Portugal to Poland and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Bellavitis presents an overview of the economic rights of women - property, inheritance, management of their wealth, access to the guilds, access to education - and assesses the evolution of female work in different urban contexts. Anna Bellavitis is Professor of Early Modern History at Rouen University in Normandy, France and Senior Member of the University Institute of France. Her research concentrates on family and gender history, urban history and citizenship and labour history.
Note
Based on a translation from the Italian language edition Il lavoro delle donne nelle città dell'Europa moderna, by Anna Bellavitis.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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text file PDF
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 15, 2018).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319965406
Intro; Preface; Contents; Part I: Women, Work, Rights and the City; 1: Women Have Always Worked; References; 2: The Gender of Work; References; 3: Working Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Widows; References; 4: The 'Decline Thesis' and the Guilds: An 'Accordion Movement'?; References; 5: From Globalisation to Industrialisation; References; 6: Agency and Capabilities: North Versus South?; References; 7: The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Profession; References; Part II: Women's Jobs; 8: Servants and Slaves; References; 9: Caring and Feeding.
