Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France /

"In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments--from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses--although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France r...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kushner, Nina (Editor), Hafter, Daryl M., 1935- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > France > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Women > Employment > France > History > 18th century.
Women > Employment.
Women > Economic conditions.
Femmes > France > Conditions economiques > 18e siecle.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The phenomenon of female lordship : the example of the Comtesse de Sade / Rafe Blaufarb
  • Women and work identity / Nancy Locklin
  • The business of being kept : elite prostitution as work / Nina Kushner
  • The power of wives : managing money and men in the family businesses of Old Regime Paris / Jacob D. Melish
  • Many exceptional women : female artists in Old Regime Paris / Cynthia M. Truant
  • Printer widows and the state in eighteenth-century France / Jane McLeod
  • Women and contracts in the age of transatlantic commerce / Jennifer L. Palmer
  • Women and the birth of modern consumer capitalism / James B. Collins
  • French industrial growth in women's hands / Daryl M. Hafter
  • Women in the Paris manufacturing trades at the end of the long eighteenth century : continuity and change / Judith A. DeGroat.

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