Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, C. 1100-1800

ISBN-13: 9781138202023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

Merridee L. Bailey; Tania M. Colwell; Julie Hotchin

Opis

By exploring the array of meanings attributed to work for and by women, this volume re-evaluates concepts and experiences of work as sites of social, economic and cultural production in which women’s identities were created and performed.

Spis treści

1. Approaching Women and Work in Premodern Europe  Merridee L. Bailey, Tania M. Colwell, and Julie Hotchin  2. Working Through Letters: Women’s Voices and Epistolary Culture in the Tegernseer Liebesbriefe  Diana Jeske  3. Uncourtly Cloth Workers in the Old French Sewing Songs  E. Jane Burns  4. "When Adam Delved and Eve Span": Gender and Textile Production in the Middle Ages  Sarah Randles  5. "Fortune ce mestier m’aprist": Christine de Pizan as Writer, Teacher, and Voice of Wisdom  Ellen Thorington  6. Home Work: The Bourgeois Wife in Later Medieval England  Jeremy Goldberg  7. Gender, Authority and Monastic Work: Holy Cross in Brunswick, c. 1500  Julie Hotchin  8. "any Man or Woman being hole & mighty in body": Women’s Work Under Tudor Vagrancy Law  Nicholas Dean Brodie  9. Working at the Margins: Women and Illicit Economic Practices in Lyon in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  Anne Montenach  10. Contested Authority: Working Women in Leading Positions in the Early Modern Dutch Urban Economy  Ariadne Schmidt