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Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

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  1. Anna Bellavitis

    1. University of Rouen, Rouen, France

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  • Combines a macro-analytical approach (discussion of historical thesis and models) with a micro-narrative approach (case-studies and life-stories)

  • Highlights the need for further research on women’s working opportunities

  • Investigates 'female' occupations from domestic service to prostitution

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Women, Work, Rights and the City

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Women Have Always Worked

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      Pages 3-18

    3. The Gender of Work

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      Pages 19-30

    4. Working Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Widows

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      Pages 31-41

    5. The ‘Decline Thesis’ and the Guilds: An ‘Accordion Movement’?

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      Pages 43-56

    6. From Globalisation to Industrialisation

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      Pages 57-68

    7. Agency and Capabilities: North Versus South?

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      Pages 69-86

    8. The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Profession

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      Pages 87-108

  3. Women’s Jobs

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      Pages 109-109
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    2. Servants and Slaves

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      Pages 111-128

    3. Caring and Feeding

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      Pages 129-144

    4. Midwives

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      Pages 145-156

    5. Bodies as Resources

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      Pages 157-167

  4. Workshops and Markets

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      Pages 169-169
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    2. Learning at Home and on the Shop Floor

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      Pages 171-182

    3. Women, Families, Guilds and the French Exception

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      Pages 183-196

    4. Silk and Skill

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      Pages 197-208

    5. Printed Tracks

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      Pages 209-218

    6. In the Market Place

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      Pages 219-234
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Rouen, Rouen, France

    Anna Bellavitis

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

  • Authors: Anna Bellavitis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96540-6Published: 09 November 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07210-0Published: 13 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96541-3Published: 09 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 266

  • Topics: Economic History, Feminist Anthropology, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, European Economics

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