Women, work, and sexual politics in eighteenth-century England/
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Oxford, UK New York, NY, USA:
B. Blackwell,
1989
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: pinchbeck and after, 2 The social context, 3 Womenʹs work in the family economy, 4 The undermining of the family economy, 5 Female servants in Husbandry, 6 Female apprenticeship, 7 Housework, 8 Domestic service, 9 Ignored, unrecorded and invisible: some occupations of women, 10 The economics of courtship and marriage, 11 Clarity and obscurity in the law relating to wives, property and marriage, 12 Spinsters ans spinsterhood, 13 Widows, 14 Conclusion.