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Cargando... Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620por Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
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This study explores the diverse and changing ways in which English women participated in the market economy between 1300 and 1620. Marjorie Keniston McIntosh assesses women's activity by examining their engagement in the production and sale of goods, service work, credit relationships, and leasing of property. Using substantial evidence from equity court petitions and microhistorical studies of five market centres, she challenges both traditional views of a 'golden age' for women's work and more recent critiques. She argues that the level of women's participation in the market economy fluctuated considerably during this period under the pressure of demographic, economic, social, and cultural change. Although women always faced gender-based handicaps, some of them enjoyed wider opportunities during the generations following the plague of 1348-9. By the late sixteenth century, however, these opportunities had largely disappeared and their work was concentrated at the bottom of the economic system. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The author only focused on the kinds of work that generated income for their families. She focused on things like taking in boarders, pawning, renting out property, apprenticeships, even brewing ale.
The author did extensive research for this book, using evidence from equity court petitions to microhistorical studies in five of the major market centers of the time.
I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in early modern england and specifically on the social and gender studies of that time. ( )