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Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620 (Hardcover, New)
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Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620 (Hardcover, New)
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This study explores the diverse and changing ways in which English
women participated in the market economy between 1300 and 1620.
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh assesses women's activity by examining
their engagement in the production and sale of goods, service work,
credit relationships, and leasing of property. Using substantial
evidence from equity court petitions and microhistorical studies of
five market centres, she challenges both traditional views of a
'golden age' for women's work and more recent critiques. She argues
that the level of women's participation in the market economy
fluctuated considerably during this period under the pressure of
demographic, economic, social, and cultural change. Although women
always faced gender-based handicaps, some of them enjoyed wider
opportunities during the generations following the plague of
1348-9. By the late sixteenth century, however, these opportunities
had largely disappeared and their work was concentrated at the
bottom of the economic system.
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