ISBN:
9781317320593
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (216 p)
Series Statement:
Perspectives in Economic and Social HIST
Series Statement:
Perspectives in Economic and Social History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World
DDC:
305.40903
Keywords:
Women--History--Modern period, 1600-
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century; 2 Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzcoa (Northern Spain) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 3 Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northern Europe before the First World War; 4 Women, Households and Independence under the Old English Poor Laws; 5 The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Century
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994-2004): Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Programme7 Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century: Gender-Differentiated Patterns and Destinies; 8 Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria: Separate Property, Usufruct and Ownership in Different Family Configurations; Notes; Index
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