Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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USDIn a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily family lives of poor European women in the nineteenth century, Rachel Fuchs powerfully conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing women in this period. She offers a fascinating study of their experience of birth, sex and death, as well as the changing responsibilities of individual family members and the transformations in society's responses to the problems of poverty. This accessible synthesis will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history.
- Accessible study that will be invaluable for courses on gender, welfare, poverty, labor, family and social history
- Written by one of the best-known scholars in the field of gender studies
- Companion volume to Merry Wiesner's Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Reviews & endorsements
"Fuchs has written an outstanding and ambitious study gender and poverty in nineteenth-century Europe."
Judith F. Stone, Western Michigan University, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"...a highly informative and accessible overview of the experience of poverty, particularly women's experiences of it, in both rural and urban areas of Western Europe and Russia during the "long nineteenth century." Given this book's thematic range and scope and the easy, fluid way in which it is written, it will appeal to a broad range of academics and nonspecialists, students and the general reader, who have an interest in comparative social, culturaland women's history..."
--History: Review of New Books
"...a solid introduction to the issues involving women's and gender history, the concepts of 'history from below,' and the distinction among the various schools of contemporary historiography." -Janet M. C. Walmsley, H-German
Product details
December 2005Paperback
9780521629263
282 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.39kg
15 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. The revolutionary era, 1770–1815
- 2. Population and poverty
- 3. Rural society and the problems of poverty
- 4. Working in the cities
- 5. Life in the cities
- 6. Charity and welfare.
