Female Agency in the Urban Economy

Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830
Herausgeber: Simonton, Deborah; Montenach, Anne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, from a pan-European network of historians from twelve countries, examines the ways that the European urban experience was gendered over time and across borders. Situated in eighteenth-century urban culture, the chapters in this volume evaluate the economic activities and agency of women in these commercial communities. It addresses a number of questions which speak to how women specifically negotiated and articulated their relationship to the gendered urban economy. The book is an integrated collection of local studies, employing both quantitative and qualitative approaches, but with a very coherent approach. It is embedded in an urban / economic / gender approach which unites the chapters and which is drawn together by the editors in their introduction and afterword.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415537292
• ISBN-10: 0415537290
• Artikelnr.: 36623074

Autorenporträt

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor in History, University of Southern Denmark and leads the Gender in the European Town Network. Anne Montenach is an Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Aix-Marseille University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Gender, Agency and Economy: Shaping the Eighteenth-Century
European Town Anne Montenach and Deborah Simonton Part 1: Markets and
Brokerage 2. Legal Trade and Black Markets: Foodtrades in Lyon in the Late
Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries Anne Montenach 3. On the Streets
and in the Markets: Independent Copenhagen Saleswomen Carol Gold 4.
Makeshift, Women and Capability in Pre-Industrial European Towns Laurence
Fontaine 5. Women Patients in the English Urban Medical Marketplace in the
Long Eighteenth Century Marjo Kaartinen Part 2: Negotiating the Urban
Economy 6. Widows and Wenches: Single Women in Eighteenth-Century Urban
Economies Deborah Simonton 7. Guilds, Gender Policies and Economic
Opportunities for Women in Early Modern Dutch Towns Danielle van den Heuvel
8. Women Working in Guild Crafts: Female Strategies in Early Modern Urban
Economies Anna C. Fridrich 9. Legal Regulation in Eighteenth-Century
Cologne: The Agency of Female Artisans Muriel González Athenas Part 3:
Gender, Agency and Relationships in the Urban Economy 10. Gender and Urban
Land in Swedish Towns Åsa Karlsson Sjögren 11. Everyday Politics: Power
Relations of Urban Female Servants in the Finnish City of Turku in the
1780s Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen 12. Women on Their Way: Employment
Opportunities in Cosmopolitan Rome Eleonora Canepari 13. The Chosen Ones:
Godmotherhood as a Networking Strategy in the Merchant Community of Pori,
1765-1820 Jarkko Keskinen Afterword Anne Montenach and Deborah Simonton