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Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres

Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres

Owens, Alastair
Beachy, Robert
Craig, Beatrice

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Business GeneralGeneral European HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 184520185X
ISBN13: 9781845201852
Publisher: Berg 3pl
Published: Aug 1 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of 'separate spheres' - whereby men operated in the public world of work and women in the private realm of the domestic. Drawing on case studies throughout Europe, this book reveals that there was much greater diversity in women's economic experience across all social strata than has previously been understood.International contributors take a new look at women's roles in finance and investment, family-owned businesses, retailing, service activities, and the artisanal trades. They reveal that elite and middle-class women often manipulated financial resources in a highly sophisticated manner. Family-owned businesses and retail trade geared to women, such as grocery and fashion, also offered women opportunities. Throughout, the book considers the impact of industrialization on women's economic agency and examines women in the accommodation business in London, female entrepreneurs in Italy, prostitutes in Germany, family businesses in Sweden, women in publishing in Spain and much more.

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