Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England Hill Bridget
Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England Hill Bridget The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by…
Specifikacia Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England Hill Bridget
Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England Hill Bridget
The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This study focuses on the household, the most important unit of production in the 18th century. She also discusses the role of service in husbandry and apprenticeship, as sources of training for women, Hill examines the work done by the women of the household, not only in "housework" but also in agriculture and manufacturing, and explains what women lost as the household's independence as a unit of economic production was undermined.; Considering the whole range of activities in which women were involved - including many occupations unrecorded in censuses which have, therefore, been largely ignored by historians - Hill charts the increasing sexual division of labour and highlights its implications.
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