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The Invisible Woman : Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2005.
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| Colección: | Studies in labour history (Liverpool University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- General Editor's Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I: WOMEN IN THE DOMESTIC SPHERE
- 1 The Birth of a New Profession: The Housekeeper and her Status in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 2 The Representation of Housework in the Eighteenth-Century Women's Press
- 3 Needlework and the Rights of Women in England at the End of the Eighteenth Century
- 4 Governesses of the Royal Family and the Nobility in Great Britain, 1750-1815
- PART II: WOMEN IN MALE STRONGHOLDS
- 5 The Labour and Servitude of Women in the Highlands of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century
- 6 Women in the Army in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 7 Hospital Nurses in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Service without Responsibility
- 8 Claiming their Place in the Corporate Community: Women's Identity in Eighteenth-Century Towns
- 9 Women Barred from Masonic 'Work': A British Phenomenon
- PART III: WOMEN AND THE CULTURAL SCENE
- 10 The Actress and Eighteenth-Century Ideals of Femininity
- 11 Women in Action: Elizabeth Inchbald, Heroines and Serving Maids in British Comedies of the 1780s and 1790s
- 12 Profession: Siren-The Ambiguous Status of Professional Women Musicians in Eighteenth-Century England
- 13 The Lee Sisters: Eighteenth-Century Commercial Heroines
- 14 Eighteenth-Century Images of Working Women
- Index.