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Titolo: | Female agency in the urban economy : gender in European towns, 1640-1830 / / edited by Deborah Simonton and Anne Montenach |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (549 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.42094 |
Soggetto topico: | Women - Europe - Economic conditions |
Women - Europe - Social conditions | |
Cities and towns - Europe - History | |
Sex role - Europe - History | |
Altri autori: | MontenachAnne SimontonDeborah <1948-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Claiming spaces : markets and brokerage -- pt. 2. Negotiating the urban economy : constraints and opportunities -- pt. 3. Exploring relationships : kinship and community. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds' regulations, affected women's participation in the urban economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women - which is an essential component of female agency - was very |
Titolo autorizzato: | Female agency in the urban economy |
ISBN: | 1-136-27502-9 |
0-203-11052-8 | |
1-299-48075-6 | |
1-136-27503-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779681003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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