Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London

Tim Reinke-Williams

Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London

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Abstract

Drawing on legal and literary sources, this work revises and expands understandings of female honesty, worth and credit by exploring how women from the middling and lower ranks of society fashioned positive identities as mothers, housewives, domestic managers, retailers and neighbours between 1550 and 1700.

Original language	English
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Number of pages	225
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-137-37210-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-37209-3, 978-1-349-47596-4
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2014

Keywords

Social history
economic history
cultural history
women's history
gender history
labour history
history of work
history of London
urban history
early modern history

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Dr Tim Reinke-Williams
- tim.reinke-williamsnorthampton.acuk
- University of Northampton, Culture - Senior Lecturer in History
- Centre for Historical Studies
Person: Academic

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