The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton draws together recent research and methodological developments to take an overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the so-called pre-industrial period to the present. Taking the role of gender and class in defining women's labour as a central theme, Deborah Simonton compares and contrasts the pace of change between European countries, distinguishing between Europe-wide issues and...
The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A Histo...
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman s role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century.
In this collection of essays, leading women's historians counter the notion of national histories and provide the insight and perspective of a European approach. Important intellectual, political and economic developments have not respected national boundaries, nor has the story of women s past, or the interplay of gender...
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman s role and...
Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future.But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities. Not only are women largely missing from these grand narratives, but men's experience has tended to be sublimated in intellectual, political and economic agendas. Neither femininities nor masculinities have been given much of a place in Scotland's past or in the process of nation-making. Gender in Scottish History offers a...
Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its prese...
Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to the present day. Including documents from across Europe, from France and Germany to Estonia, Spain and Russia, organized in a broad chronological spread, the diversity of the sources included in the book is unique - including many never translated into English before. Deborah Simonton offers detailed interpretive introductions that analyse and contextualize the sources. A central feature is its...
Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the ...
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...
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity ...
Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity since 1700 provides readers with an overview of women's roles and place in western Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century, with essays covering the key themes in women's history. Drawing on women s own writing and cultural production, it presents women as agents of change as well as exploring cultural perceptions of women and the ways in which women have been represented by these discourses.
Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook contains a uniquely diverse range of...
Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity since 1700 provides readers with an overview of women's roles and place ...
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...
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity ...
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns to the core, challenging the new world view with dramatic impact.This book concentrates on a period marked by passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional village life to new bourgeois and even individualistic urbanism. The volume employs a broad definition of catastrophe, as it examines how urban communities...
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought...
