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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Bridget.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989.
Subjects:
Women > Employment > England > History > 18th century.
Home labor > England > History > 18th century.
Women in agriculture > England > History > 18th century.
Women > England > Social conditions.
Women.
Gender identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Pinchbeck and after
  • The social context
  • Women's work in the family economy
  • The undermining of the family economy
  • Female servants in husbandry
  • Female apprenticeship
  • Housework
  • Domestic service
  • Ignored, unrecorded, and invisible : some occupations of women
  • The economics of courtship and marriage
  • Clarity and obscurity in the law relating to wives, property, and marriage
  • Spinsters and spinsterhood
  • Widows.

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