Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

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Edited by Beatrice Moring

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781440018

Subjects:: History, Economic History

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This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period. The central argument of many contributors is that, far from some accepted stereotypes, women throughout history have not been passive in dealing with their economic needs, and that older women in particular had more agency than has previously been assumed.

"'Moring and her contributors add to ongoing debates on women’s work and wellbeing ... The studies in this volume make persuasive use of rich qualitative evidence.'"

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Contributors
pp ix-x

List of Tables
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
pp 11-32

2 - Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzcoa (Northern Spain) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
pp 33-44

3 - Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northern Europe before the First World War
pp 45-72

4 - Women, Households and Independence under the Old English Poor Laws
pp 73-88

5 - The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Century
pp 89-108

6 - Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994–2004): Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
pp 109-126

7 - Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century: Gender-Differentiated Patterns and Destinies
pp 127-144

8 - Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria: Separate Property, Usufruct and Ownership in Different Family Configurations
pp 145-160

Notes
pp 161-194

Index
pp 195-201

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