Cultures of Charity - Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

Klappentext Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women's shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans. Zusammenfassung Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Terpstra, Terpstra Nicholas
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9780674067097
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06709-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Education, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Modern / General, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Poverty and precarity