《Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620》是2005年Cambridge Univ Pr出版的圖書，作者是McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620
- 作者：McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston
- 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr
- 出版時間：2005年6月
- 頁數：306 頁
- 定價：120.91 美元
- 裝幀：HRD
- ISBN：9780521846165
內容簡介
This study explores the diverse and changing ways in which English women participated in the market economy between 1300 and 1620. Marjorie Keniston McIntosh assesses women's activity by examining their engagement in the production and sale of goods, service work, credit relationships, and leasing of property. Using substantial new evidence from equity court petitions and microhistorical studies of five market centres, she challenges both traditional views of a 'golden age' for women's work and more recent critiques. She argues that the level of women's participation in the market economy fluctuated considerably during this period under the pressure of demographic, economic, social, and cultural change. Although women always faced gender-based handicaps, some of them enjoyed wider opportunities during the generations following the plague of 1348-9. By the late sixteenth century, however, these opportunities had largely disappeared and their work was concentrated at the bottom of the economic system.
