Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France
Bonnie Smith, Cynthia Truant, Daryl M. Hafter, Jacob Melish, James Collins, Jane McLeod, Judith DeGroat, Nancy Locklin, Nina Kushner, Rafe Blaufarb
ISBN: | 9780807158333 |
Publisher: | LSU Press |
Published: | 12 January, 2015 |
Format: | eBook |
Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France
Bonnie Smith, Cynthia Truant, Daryl M. Hafter, Jacob Melish, James Collins, Jane McLeod, Judith DeGroat, Nancy Locklin, Nina Kushner, Rafe Blaufarb
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 eighteen
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