1st Edition
Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England
By Bridget Hill
Copyright 1993
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This study focuses on the household, the most important unit of production in the 18th century. Hill examines the work done by the women of the household, not only in "housework" but also in agriculture and... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Pinchbeck and After; Chapter 2 The Social Context; Chapter 3 Women's Work in the Family Economy; Chapter 4 The Undermining of the Family Economy; Chapter 5 Female Servants in Husbandry; Chapter 6 Female Apprenticeship; Chapter 7 Housework; Chapter 8 Domestic Service; Chapter 9 Ignored, Unrecorded, and Invisible: Some Occupations of Women; Chapter 10 The Economics of Courtship and Marriage; Chapter 11 Clarity and Obscurity in the Law Relating to Wives, Property, and Marriage; Chapter 12 Spinsters and Spinsterhood; Chapter 13 Widows; Chapter 14 Conclusion;
Biography
Bridget Hill
'This book is both original and comprehensive. It is an excellent teaching text with scores of insights. It is sound history, providing revisions and reassessments without over-emphatic polemics.' - E.P. Thompson
'Serves as a model of what women's history could and should be.' - Signs
