Women and Work in Premodern Europe : Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800 Hardback
Edited by Merridee L. (The University of Adelaide, Australia) Bailey, Tania M. (Australian National University) Colwell, Julie (The Australian National University) Hotchin
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This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women’s working experiences, and by adopting new interpretive approaches that expand received assumptions about what constituted 'work' for women.
While attention to the diversity of women’s contributions to the economy has done much to make the breadth of women’s experiences of labour visible, this volume takes a more expansive conceptual approach to the notion of work and considers the social and cultural dimensions in which activities were construed and valued as work.
This interdisciplinary collection thus advances concepts of work that encompass cultural activities in addition to more traditional economic understandings of work as employment or labour for production.
The chapters reconceptualise and explore work for women by asking how the working lives of historical women were enacted and represented, and analyse the relationships that shaped women’s experiences of work across the European premodern period.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/06/2018
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- ISBN:9781138202023
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138202023
