gender and work in early modern European society
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Agren, Maria > [ed.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- SCA 5 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, dagelijks leven, huwelijken, identiteit, ouderen, Zweden, vroegmoderne periode, bundel
- Description
- This book addresses a number of problems debated by historians of gender and early modern Europe. First, it discusses the problem of assessing the incidence, character and division of work. Second, it analyzes the configurations of work and human difference. Third, it deals with the extent to which work practices created notions of difference--gender difference but also other forms of difference--and, conversely, to what extent work practices contributed to notions of sameness and gender convergence. Finally, it studies the impact of processes of change. Drawing on sources from Sweden, the authors show the importance of multiple employment, the openness of early modern households, the significance of marriage and marital status, the gendered nature of specific tasks, and the ways in which state formation and commercialization were entangled in people's everyday lives.