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Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities

Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities

Howell, Martha C.

Paperback

Series: Women in Culture and Society

Medieval & Renaissance HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0226355047
ISBN13: 9780226355047
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jun 26 1990
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
In this bold reinterpretation of Women's changing labor status during the late medieval and early modern period, Martha C. Howell argues that women's work was the product of the intersection of two systems, one cultural and one economic. Howell shows forcefully that patriarchal family structure, not capitalist development per se, was a decisive factor in determining women's work. Women could enjoy high labor status if they worked within a family production unit or if their labor did not interfere with their domestic responsibilities or threaten male control of a craft or trade.

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