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Her Bread To Earn : Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen /
Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. In a startling revisionist study, Mona Scheuermann refutes these stereotypes, finding that the images presented by eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centu...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: ""I was become, from a Lady of Pleasure, a Woman of Business, and of great Business too, I assure you.""; THREE: ""I have sometimes wished that it had pleased God to have taken me in mylast fever, when I had everybody's love and good opinion.""; FOUR: ""with Regard to the young Lady ... my own Observation assured me that she would be an inestimable Treasure to a good Husband.""; FIVE: ""I live in an age when light begins to appear even in regions that have hitherto been thick darkness.""
- SIX: ""Still she mourned her child, lamented she was a daughter, and anticipated the aggravated ills of life that her sex rendered almost inevitable.""SEVEN: ""He had ... enough to marry a woman as portionless even as Miss Taylor.""; EIGHT Conclusion; Notes; Index.