Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Informationen zum Autor Rachel G. Fuchs is Professor of History at the Arizona State University. Her previous publications include Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century (1992) and Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914 (as co-editor, 1995). Klappentext In a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily family lives of poor European women in the nineteenth century! Rachel Fuchs powerfully conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing women in this period. She offers a fascinating study of their experience of birth! sex and death! as well as the changing responsibilities of individual family members and the transformations in society's responses to the problems of poverty. This accessible synthesis will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies! urban history and social and family history. Zusammenfassung This book is a major history of the dramatic changes in the daily family lives of poor European women in the nineteenth century. Rachel Fuchs powerfully conveys the difficulties facing women. This accessible synthesis will be essential reading for students of gender studies! urban history and social and family history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The revolutionary era, 1770-1815; 2. Population and poverty; 3. Rural society and the problems of poverty; 4. Working in the cities; 5. Life in the cities; 6. Charity and welfare.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rachel G. Fuchs, Rachel G. (Arizona State University) Fuchs, Rachel Ginnis Fuchs
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521629263
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62926-3
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Serien: New Approaches to European History; Print on Demand; New Approaches to European History
• Themen: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien