Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe
ISBN:
978-3-319-96540-6
Auflage:
1st ed. 2018
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.11.2018
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
266
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In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women’s roles in economic urban activities. Covering a wide area of early modern Europe, from Portugal to Poland and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Bellavitis presents an overview of the economic rights of women – property, inheritance, management of their wealth, access to the guilds, access to education – and assesses the evolution of female work in different urban contexts.
Schlagwörter
Industrialisation
Feminist economics
feminist anthropology
Silk industry
Women's work in Early Modern European Cities
Women in history
Gender of work
Women's rights in the early modern period
Economics of prostitution
Querelle des femmes
Women and globalisation
Female guilds
Female occupations
Proto-industry
Biografische Anmerkung
Anna Bellavitis is Professor of Early Modern History at Rouen University in Normandy, France and Senior Member of the University Institute of France. Her research concentrates on family and gender history, urban history and citizenship and labour history.
