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Working Women of Early Modern Venice. By Monica Chojnacka. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 188. $32.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2002

John Jeffries Martin
John Jeffries Martin
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Trinity University
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In this carefully researched book, Monica Chojnacka stresses the independence of working women in early modern Venice. Accepting the premise that, in general, the wives, sisters, and daughters of the nobility led highly restricted lives throughout this period, she argues that both economic forces and the formation of new charitable institutions benefited popolane (non-elite women) by providing them with forms of sociability, community, and agency that were denied their social superiors.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 592 - 593
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© 2002 The Economic History Association

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