Women, work & sexual politics in eighteenth-century England
By: Bridget Hill
Series: Women's history; Women's history
Publisher: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780203986318
Subjects: Employment; Social conditions; Home labor; History; Women in agriculture; Women
Other titles: Women, work and sexual politics in eighteenth-century England
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : Pinchbeck and after; title: 2. The social context; title: 3. Women's work in the family economy; title: 4. The undermining of the family economy; title: 5. Female servants in husbandry; title: 6. Female apprenticeship; title: 7. Housework; title: 8. Domestic service; title: 9. Ignored, unrecorded, and invisible : some occupations of women; title: 10. The economics of courtship and marriage; title: 11. Clarity and obscurity in the law relating to wives, property, and marriage; title: 12. Spinsters and spinsterhood; title: 13. Widows; title: 14. Conclusion.