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Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (Women in Culture & Society) by Martha C Howell; ACLS Humanities E-Book (Organization); American Council of Learned Societies is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
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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 interfer
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- Author
- Martha C Howell; ACLS Humanities E-Book (Organization); American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226355047
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Management, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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