Women at Work in Preindustrial France by Daryl M Hafter
This book draws upon substantial archival research in Rouen, Lyon, and Paris to show that while the vast majority of working women in eighteenth-century France labored at unskilled, low-paying jobs, it was not at all unusual for women to be actively engaged in economic activities as workers, managers, and merchants.“This is the first full-length study of women in all-female and mixed guilds in Old Regime France. . . Hafter contributes a great deal to our understanding of gender and the gendering of work, of the function of women’s work in patriarchal society, of the agency women held in early modern France to control their work, of the ways this control brought women into the public sphere of the old regime, and of the ways ideas about gender and work changed over the eighteenth century and into the Revolution.”
—Clare H. Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daryl M. Hafter is Professor Emerita of History at Eastern Michigan University. She is the editor of European Women and Preindustrial Craft (1995).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271058689 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271058684 |
| Title | Women at Work in Preindustrial France |
| Author | Daryl M Hafter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2012-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
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