Bridget Hill

Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A reassessment of women's experience of work in 18th-century England, and the effects it had on industrialization and other economic, social and technological changes. It also examines how this influenced marriage and relations between the sexes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135368852
• Artikelnr.: 42711643

Autorenporträt

Bridget Hill

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Pinchbeck and After
Chapter 2 The Social Context
Chapter 3 Women's Work in the Family Economy
Chapter 4 The Undermining of the Family Economy
Chapter 5 Female Servants in Husbandry
Chapter 6 Female Apprenticeship
Chapter 7 Housework
Chapter 8 Domestic Service
Chapter 9 Ignored, Unrecorded, and Invisible: Some Occupations of Women
Chapter 10 The Economics of Courtship and Marriage
Chapter 11 Clarity and Obscurity in the Law Relating to Wives, Property, and Marriage
Chapter 12 Spinsters and Spinsterhood
Chapter 13 Widows
Chapter 14 Conclusion