GENDER AND POVERTY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE by Rachel G. Fuchs ( 9780521629263 )

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GENDER AND POVERTY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE

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ISBN 10:

0521629268

ISBN 13:

9780521629263

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

10 November, 2005

Series:

New Approaches to European History 35

Pages:

282

Description:

This book is a major history of the dramatic changes in the lives of poor women in nineteenth-century Europe.

Synopsis:

This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the law. Within a climate of calamities, the poor relied on their own resourcefulness and community connections where the boundaries between the private and public were indistinguishable, and on a system of exchange and reciprocity to help them fashion their culture of expediencies. This accessible synthesis introduces readers to conflicting interpretations of major historic developments and evaluates those interpretations. It will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history.

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15 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

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Returnable

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