Women, work & sexual politics in eighteenth-century England /

Women, work & sexual politics in eighteenth-century England / Bridget Hill.

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Main Author: Hill, Bridget
Other title:Women, work and sexual politics in eighteenth-century England.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 1994.
Series:Women's history.
Subjects:
Women > Employment > England > History > 18th century.
Home labor > England > History > 18th century.
Women in agriculture > England > History > 18th century.
Women > England > Social conditions.
Home labor.
Women > Employment.
Women in agriculture.
Women > Social conditions.
England.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : Pinchbeck and after
  • 2. The social context
  • 3. Women's work in the family economy
  • 4. The undermining of the family economy
  • 5. Female servants in husbandry
  • 6. Female apprenticeship
  • 7. Housework
  • 8. Domestic service
  • 9. Ignored, unrecorded, and invisible : some occupations of women
  • 10. The economics of courtship and marriage
  • 11. Clarity and obscurity in the law relating to wives, property, and marriage
  • 12. Spinsters and spinsterhood
  • 13. Widows
  • 14. Conclusion.

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