David Pennington

Going to Market (eBook, PDF)

Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Going to Market rethinks women's contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women's everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that they could take advantage of new commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree of economic agency. Through an investigation of a broad range of primary sources the study reconstructs how women did business and negotiated with male householders, authorities, customers, and competitors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317126164
• Artikelnr.: 44864960

Autorenporträt

Dr David Pennington is an assistant professor of history at Webster University, St. Louis, where he teaches courses on early modern British history, early modern European history, world history, and women's and gender history. His research focuses on how people in early modern England responded and adapted to economic change and commercialization. He has published peer-reviewed articles on the economic ideology of seventeenth-century members of Parliament, hucksters and the local politics of provision, and popular attitudes towards women's participation in commerce.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: households
marketplaces
and neighborhoods; Prescription
anxiety
and acceptance: representations of market women in popular culture; Cooperation and conflict: women
commerce
and the household economy; Traders
hucksters
and creditors: independent tradeswomen and the commerce of early modern towns; Conflicting interests
common interests: female traders
marital status
and town authorities; Women
commerce
and female reputation; When to give and when to gouge: bargaining
neighborliness
and the limits of the moral economy; The potency of women's words: gossip
slander
and the enforcement of plain dealing; Women
protest
and marketplace politics; Conclusion: to 'runneth & raveth' after markets; Bibliography; Index.