Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe 1st Edition Anna Bellavitis

Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319965406,9783319965413,3319965409,3319965417

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319965409
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319965406
• Author(s): Anna Bellavitis

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.

Table contents:

Part I. Women, Work, Rights and the City
1. Women Have Always Worked
2. The Gender of Work
3. Working Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Widows
4. The ‘Decline Thesis’ and the Guilds: An ‘Accordion Movement’?
5. From Globalisation to Industrialisation
6. Agency and Capabilities: North Versus South?
7. The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Profession
Part II. Women’s Jobs
8. Servants and Slaves
9. Caring and Feeding
10. Midwives
11. Bodies as Resources
Part III. Workshops and Markets
12. Learning at Home and on the Shop Floor
13. Women, Families, Guilds and the French Exception
14. Silk and Skill
15. Printed Tracks
16. In the Market Place
17. International Traders
Part IV. Conclusions
18. Conclusion: Changes and Continuity

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