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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462341103321

Titolo

Female economic strategies in the modern world / / edited by Beatrice Moring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-32058-1

1-315-65494-6

1-317-32059-X

1-283-85040-0

1-78144-001-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in economic and social history ; ; number 22

Altri autori (Persone)

MoringBeatrice

Disciplina

305.4209

Soggetti

Women - History - Modern period, 1600-

Women - Economic conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2012 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Contributors; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Widows, Family and Poor relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century; 2. Survival Strategies of Poor Women in the two Localities in Guipuzcoa; 3. Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northen Europe; 4. Women, Households and Independence Under the Old English Poor Laws; 5. The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland; 6.  Mexico: Women and Poverty; 7. Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century; 8. Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period.