1st Edition

Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

Edited By Beatrice Moring Copyright 2012
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period.

    Introduction, Beatrice Moring; Chapter 1 Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, Richard Wall; Chapter 2 Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzcoa (Northern Spain) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Lola Valverde Lamfus; Chapter 3 Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northern Europe Before the First World War, Beatrice Moring; Chapter 4 Women, Households and Independence Under the Old English Poor Laws, Susannah Ottaway; Chapter 5 The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the Midnineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century, Anne-Lise Head-König; Chapter 6 Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994–2004): Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Verónica Villarespe Reyes, Ana Patricia Sosa Ferreira; Chapter 7 Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century: Genderdifferentiated Patterns and Destinies, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga; Chapter 8 Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria: Separate Property, Usufruct and Ownership in Different Family Configurations, Margareth Lanzinger;

    Biography

    Beatrice Moring