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Women's Work and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Brittany (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women's Work and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Brittany (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Based on a solid foundation of archival research that ranges from
tax rolls to notarial records, this study adds an important chapter
to our understanding of women in pre-industrial Europe. Through a
rigorous examination of primary documents peculiar to
eighteenth-century Brittany, the author demonstrates the
difficulties engendered in broad generalities about European women,
and makes a strong case for the necessity for historians to account
for regional differences in women's experiences. In particular,
Nancy Locklin makes a compelling argument for the need to
incorporate a broader basis upon which women attained their
identity. Indeed, Locklin rightly contends that most women in
pre-industrial European societies were recognized (and perhaps saw
themselves) through a variety of identities over the course of
their lives, depending on their age, familial connections, marital
status, and the type of work they performed, and that often these
identities overlapped. Locklin also shows the extent to which legal
and ideological prescriptions painted a relatively negative picture
of women's status, but that a close examination of women's
participation in family, community, and commercial affairs reveals
a much more complex and divergent reality.
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