Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9781857282139 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str.

Bridget Hill

Opis

The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th-century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.

Recenzje

'This book is both original and comprehensive. It is an excellent teaching text with scores of insights. It is sound history, providing revisions and reassessments without over-emphatic polemics.' - E.P. Thompson

'Serves as a model of what women's history could and should be.' - Signs

Spis treści

Pinchbeck and after; the social context; women's work in the family economy; the undermining of the family economy; female servants in husbandry; female apprenticeship; housework; domestic service; ignored, unrecorded and invisible - some occupations of women; the economics of courtship and marriage; clarity and obscurity in the law relating to wives, property and marriage; spinsters and spinsterhood; widows.

O autorze

Bridget Hill