Women and business since 1500
Subtitle: invisible presences in Europe and North America?
By: Béatrice Craig
Series: Gender and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781137033239; 9781137033222
Subjects: Women-owned business enterprises; Self-employed women; HISTORY / Modern / General; HISTORY / Social History; Businesswomen; History
Description: "This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, it identifies the economic, social, legal and cultural factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation in business. It pays particular attention to the ways in which gender norms, and their evolution, shaped not only those women's experience of business, but the ways they were perceived by contemporaries, documented in sources and, partly as a consequence, viewed by historians"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: PART I. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD (16TH TO 18TH CENTURY). Context; title: Common people : the crafts; title: Common people : retailers, street sellers, market stall holders, shopkeepers; title: Interregional and international trade and banking; title: Printers and manufacturers; title: The North American (British and French) colonies; title: Conclusion to Part One; title: PART II. THE MODERN PERIOD (19TH TO 21ST CENTURY). Context; title: More of the same : lower middle class women in the English-speaking world; title: Women and small business in continental Europe; title: Women and large businesses : successors and heiresses; title: Women and large businesses : creators and co-creators; title: Female investors and bankers : 17th to 19th Century; title: Post 1960 entrepreneurship : a new (American) female frontier?; title: Conclusion to Part Two; title: General conclusion.