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Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France (Paperback)
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In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range
of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale
businesses-although social and legal structures frequently limited
their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and
Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal how women at all levels of
society negotiated these structures with determination and
ingenuity in order to provide for themselves and their families.
Recent historiography on women and work in eighteenth-century
France has focused on the model of the ""family economy,"" in which
women's work existed as part of the communal effort to keep the
family afloat, usually in support of the patriarch's occupation.
The ten essays in this volume offer case studies that complicate
the conventional model: wives of ship captains managed family
businesses in their husbands' extended absences; high-end
prostitutes managed their own households; female weavers, tailors,
and merchants increasingly appeared on eighteenth-century tax rolls
and guild membership lists; and female members of the nobility
possessed and wielded the same legal power as their male
counterparts. Examining female workers within and outside of the
context of family, Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France
challenges current scholarly assumptions about gender and labor.
This stimulating and important collection of essays broadens our
understanding of the diversity, vitality, and crucial importance of
women's work in the eighteenth-century economy.
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