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Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

Online-Ressource (216 p)

Englisch

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

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

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

978-1-317-32059-3

978-1-84893-350-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-317-32059-3 ( : 135 (NL))

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HQ1150 .F42 2015

305.40903     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Women--History--Modern period, 1600-

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