Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Herausgeber: Bellavitis, Anna; Sarti, Raffaella; Martini, Manuela
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Herausgeber: Bellavitis, Anna; Sarti, Raffaella; Martini, Manuela
Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with…mehr
Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Anna Bellavitis is Professor of Early Modern History, Director of the Groupe de Recherche d'Histoire at Université de Rouen-Normandie, and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has led numerous international research projects on family history, gender history, and labor history in Early Modern Europe in collaboration with European universities and institutions.
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List of Figures and Tables Introduction: What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: THE FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE "DELABORIZATION" OF HOUSEHOLD WORK Chapter 1. Family Work: A Policy-Relevant Intellectual History Nancy Folbre Chapter 2. Productive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy Alessandra Pescarolo Chapter 3. The Home as a Factory: Rethinking the Debate on Housewives' Wages in Italy, 1929-1980 Alessandra Gissi PART II: THE CUNNING HISTORIAN: UNVEILING AND OVERCOMING THE GENDER BIAS OF SOURCES Chapter 4. The Statistical Construction of Women's Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856-1930) Cristina Borderías Chapter 5. Toiling Women, Non-Working Housewives and Rightful Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy Raffaella Sarti Chapter 6. The Complexities of Work: Analyzing Men's and Women's Work in the Early Modern World with the Verb-Oriented Method Maria Ågren Chapter 7. The Visibility of Women's Work: Logics and Contexts of Documents' Production Margareth Lanzinger PART III: THE VALUE OF CARE AND UNPAID HOME-BASED WORK: THE ROLE OF THE LAW Chapter 8. Regulating Home Labours: The ILO and the Feminization of Work Eileen Boris Chapter 9. Family-Relations Law between "Stratification" and "Resistance". Housework and Family Law Exceptionalism Maria Rosaria Marella Chapter 10. Could Family (Care) Work Be Paid? From French Agricultural Inheritance Law (1939) to Legal Recognition of Excessive Filial Duty (1994) Florence Weber PART IV: CONCLUSION Conclusion: Can We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women's Labor History over the Longue Durée? Laura Lee Downs Index
List of Figures and Tables Introduction: What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: THE FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE "DELABORIZATION" OF HOUSEHOLD WORK Chapter 1. Family Work: A Policy-Relevant Intellectual History Nancy Folbre Chapter 2. Productive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy Alessandra Pescarolo Chapter 3. The Home as a Factory: Rethinking the Debate on Housewives' Wages in Italy, 1929-1980 Alessandra Gissi PART II: THE CUNNING HISTORIAN: UNVEILING AND OVERCOMING THE GENDER BIAS OF SOURCES Chapter 4. The Statistical Construction of Women's Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856-1930) Cristina Borderías Chapter 5. Toiling Women, Non-Working Housewives and Rightful Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy Raffaella Sarti Chapter 6. The Complexities of Work: Analyzing Men's and Women's Work in the Early Modern World with the Verb-Oriented Method Maria Ågren Chapter 7. The Visibility of Women's Work: Logics and Contexts of Documents' Production Margareth Lanzinger PART III: THE VALUE OF CARE AND UNPAID HOME-BASED WORK: THE ROLE OF THE LAW Chapter 8. Regulating Home Labours: The ILO and the Feminization of Work Eileen Boris Chapter 9. Family-Relations Law between "Stratification" and "Resistance". Housework and Family Law Exceptionalism Maria Rosaria Marella Chapter 10. Could Family (Care) Work Be Paid? From French Agricultural Inheritance Law (1939) to Legal Recognition of Excessive Filial Duty (1994) Florence Weber PART IV: CONCLUSION Conclusion: Can We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women's Labor History over the Longue Durée? Laura Lee Downs Index
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