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Women in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a patriarchal system that generally refused to grant merit to women's views. Cultural and political events during these centuries increased attention to women's issues such as education reform, and by the end of the eighteenth century ...
29 Μαΐ 2019 · This volume focuses on the ways women from working classes up to wealthier women participated in earning their livings or enhancing the wealth of their families. Begins with the household and builds out to larger communities to show the experiences of working women at multiple levels of community.
1 Δεκ 2008 · Rather than remaining more or less intact from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, these studies argued that women’s labor status eroded considerably – even collapsed entirely – during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
My aim in this paper is to examine one element of the debate in the seventeenth century that merits the attention of those interested in the history of feminism and the history of equality more generally: a distinction between a conception of equality as metaphysical and a conception of it as practical.
Women in the 17th century were second-class citizens, subject to their fathers from birth and later handed over like chattel to their husbands. Fastidious demands were placed upon them with regards to conduct and virtue which they were expected to uphold these at all times or be judged accordingly.
This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies.
Women played several roles in their families, depending on their age and marital status. First a woman was a daughter and then a wife, mother, or widow. In contrast, male roles were generally defined by social position or occupation—merchant, knight, priest, peasant, barrel maker, weaver, and so on.
