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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.
discourse and practice in german-speaking Europe 1750-1830
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gleixner, Ulrike > (ed.)
- Creator
- Gray, Marion W. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Rasch, William
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- DUI 1A 2006
- Thesaurus
- gender, etniciteit, sociale klasse, armoede, weduwen, schrijvers, religie, leefvormen, recht, vrouwelijkheid, mannelijkheid, verlichting, Duits, Europa, 18e eeuw, 1800-1849, bundel
- Description
- The late Enlightenment saw an acute transformation of gender definitions in the German cultural areas of Europe, leading to a 'polarization' of the sexes. Where early modern cultural norms had once affirmed a multitude of differences within society, modernity was founded on an ideal of equality which in practice applied only to white male citizens. The new dichotomies of gender, socioeconomic status, and race created by this practice held tremendous social implications for all Germans. Law and science inscribed a new set of morals with gendered virtues and social spheres. Masculinity and femininity came to be understood as opposites based in nature. The transformed gender system fuelled an epochal social reordering. .This book recounts the ways in which this drama played out in German-speaking Europe during the transitional period between 1750 and 1830. Scholars examine the effect of gender in numerous realms of German life, including law, urban politics, marriage, religion, literature, natural science, fashion, and personal relationships.
moments in the history of widowhood
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bremmer, Jan N. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Bosch, Lourens van den > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Ploeg, Kirsten van der
- Publish Year
- 1995
- Shelfmark
- WER 32 1995 - B
- Thesaurus
- weduwen, godsdiensten, recht, weduwenverbrandingen, rouwproces, historisch, Europa, Azië, bundel
- Description
- Verzameling essays door historici, antropologen en letterkundigen over weduwen in verschillende culturen.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Henderson, John > (ed.)
- Creator
- Wall, Richard > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Bourke, Joanna
- Publish Year
- 1994
- Shelfmark
- WER 4 1994 - B
- Thesaurus
- armoede, liefdadigheid, gezinnen, kinderverlating, vondelingen, middeleeuwen, weduwen, Europa, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- In deze bundel komt de rol die de armoede speelt in het leven van vrouwen en kinderen aan de. De auteurs besteden aandacht aan de invloed van armoede op het verloop van de levenscyclus, de relatie tussen gezin en demografische ontwikkelingen en aan de graad van armoede. Ook de liefdadigheid, zowel door instellingen als door privé-personen komt aan de orde De bundel bevat de volgende artikelen verdeeld over twee gedeelten: Deel I: Kinderen: Family structures and the early phase in the individual life cycle : a southern European perspective / door Pier Paolo Viazzo: Illegitimacy and the abandonment of children in the Basque country, 1550-1800 / door Lola Valverde: 'Perche non avea chi la ghovernasse' : cultural values, family resources and abandonment in the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici, 1467-85 / door Philip Gavitt: Between the home and the hospice : the plight and fate of girl orphans in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Rome / door Eugenio Sonnino: The abandonment of legitimate children in nineteenth-century Milan and the European context / door Volker Hunecke. Deel II: Vrouwen: Mothers at risk of poverty in the medieval English countryside / door Elaine Clark: Women, children and poverty in Florence at the time of the Black Death / door John Henderson: The status of widows in sixteenth-century rural Castile / door David E. Vassberg: Never-married women in town and country in eighteenth -century Denmark / door Hans Chr. Johansen: The household position of elderly widows in poverty : evidence from two English communities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / door Thomas Sokoll: Poverty, the life cycle of the household and female life course in eighteenth-century Corsica / door Antoine Marchini: Transitions into old age : poverty and retirement possiblities in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iceland / door Gísli Agúst Gunnlaugsson en Loftur Guttormsson: Widowhood and poverty in nineteenth-century Nottinghamshire / door Sonya O. Rose: Avoiding poverty : strategies for women in rural Ireland 1880-1914 / door Joanna Bourke: Some implications of the earnings, income and expenditure patterns of married women in populations in the past / door Richard Wall.
wise old women in pre-industrial Europe
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Nip, Renée > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Tilburg, Marja van
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6350 - B
- Thesaurus
- ouderen, weduwen, geleerde vrouwen, vroegmoderne periode, Europa, bundel
- Description
- The contributions to this volume show that in pre-industrial Europe, women in their prime (women who had reached maturity and were beyond fertility but not yet in old age), constitute a separate category for historical and literary analysis. These wise old women, or WOWs, took on tasks in society which were essentially different from the ones they had taken on before, mainly in the household. The case studies presented here show that some of these women entered a second phase of creativity and productivity and were even able to fulfil their desires at the age of forty. Being able, at last, to find their authentic selves, they acquired a female voice of their own. For some of them, for example, Christine de Pizan, the age of forty even functioned as a trope of female authorship.
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