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Female Agency in the Urban Economy - Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830 (Paperback)
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Female Agency in the Urban Economy - Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
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This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female
agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions
female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of
institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender
politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of
working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and
guilds' regulations, affected women's participation in the urban
economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally
accepted power of women - which is an essential component of female
agency - was very limited. Yet these chapters draw attention to how
women navigated these gendered terrains. As the book demonstrates,
"exclusion" is too strong a word for the realities and pragmatism
of women's everyday lives. Frequently guild and corporate
regulations were more about situating women and regulating their
activities, rather than preventing them from operating in the urban
economy. Similarly corporate structures, which were under stress,
found flexible strategies to incorporate women who through their
own initiative and activities put pressure on the systems. Women
could benefit from the contradictions between moral and social
unwritten norms and economic regulations, and could take advantage
of the tolerance or complicity of urban authorities towards illicit
practices. Women with a grasp of their rights and privileges could
defend themselves and exploit legal systems with its loopholes and
contradictions to achieve economic independence and power.
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