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interdisciplinary perspectives on being single
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bell, Rudolph M. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Yans, Virginia > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Safa, Helen L.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 37 2008 - B
- Thesaurus
- alleenstaanden, weduwen, globalisering, echtscheidingen, politieke participatie, alleenstaande moeders, gehandicapten, moedergezinnen, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bachelors are mostly seen as having elected to be 'footloose and fancy free.' Single women, however, over the past two centuries, have been viewed as abnormal, neurotic, or simply undesirable--attitudes that result in part from the long standing belief that a single woman would not have chosen her life. This collection of essays attempts to correct that bias by presenting a more complex view of single women. The writers give a broad definition of singleness, one that includes women who never married, those who co-habit but are legally denied the right to marry, divorcees, and widows. They describe women who defiantly voted in political elections, single mothers who rejected dependency on public assistance programs, women who successfully ran businesses, and others who found fulfillment in charitable work.
gender in European towns, 1640-1830
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Simonton, Deborah > (ed.)
- Creator
- Montenach, Anne > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 5 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- economie, steden, handel, gezondheidszorg, weduwen, alleenstaanden, ambachts-, industrie- en transportberoepen, familierelaties, Europa, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds’ regulations, affected women’s participation in the urban economy: the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women was very limited. The book draws attention to how women navigated these gendered terrains. As the book demonstrates, 'exclusion' is too strong a word for the realities of women’s everyday lives. Frequently guild and corporate regulations were more about situating women and regulating their activities, rather than preventing them from operating in the urban economy. Similarly corporate structures, which were under stress, found flexible strategies to incorporate women who through their own initiative and activities put pressure on the systems.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rotman, Deborah
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 2009
- Thesaurus
- demografie, economie, weduwen, alleenstaanden, moederschap, feminisme, dagelijks leven, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, statistiek, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This can provide new insight to the study of gender relations throughout other historical periods as well. .Through an examination of both historical and archaeological evidence, the author presents a clear picture of the gendered social relations in Deerfield over the span of seventy years. While gender relations in urban settings have been studied extensively, this work provides the same level of examination to gender relations in a rural setting. Likewise, where previous studies have often focused only on relations between married men and women, the case of Deerfield provides insight into the experiences of single women, particularly widows and “spinsters”.
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