Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620

Informationen zum Autor Marjorie K. McIntosh is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her previous publications include A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620 (1991) and Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370-1600 (1998). Klappentext This is an important new study of English women's participation in the market economy from 1300 to 1620. Zusammenfassung This study explores the diverse and changing ways in which English women participated in the market economy from 1300 to 1620. Using substantial evidence it challenges both traditional views of this period as a 'golden age' for women's work and more recent critiques of the 'golden age'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Women and Their Work: 1. Women's work in its social setting; 2. Studying working women; Part II. Providing Services: 3. Domestic and personal services; 4. Financial services and real estate; Part III. Making and Selling Goods: 5. General features of women's work as producers and sellers; 6. Drink work; 7. The food trades and innkeeping; 8. Women's participation in the skilled crafts; 9. Turning the coin: women as consumers.

Product details

• Authors: Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston (University of Colorad Mcintosh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780521846165
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84616-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies