Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Rethinking Separate Spheres
Herausgeber: Beachy, Robert; Owens, Alastair; Craig, Beatrice

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Produktbeschreibung

Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of 'separate spheres' - whereby men operated in the public world of work and women in the private realm of the domestic. Drawing on case studies throughout Europe, this book reveals that there was much greater diversity in women's economic experience across all social strata than has previously been understood.International contributors take a new look at women's roles in finance and investment, family-owned businesses, retailing, service activities, and the artisanal trades. They reveal that elite and middle-class women often manipulated financial resources in a highly sophisticated manner. Family-owned businesses and retail trade geared to women, such as grocery and fashion, also offered women opportunities. Throughout, the book considers the impact of industrialization on women's economic agency and examines women in the accommodation business in London, female entrepreneurs in Italy, prostitutes in Germany, family businesses in Sweden, women in publishing in Spain and much more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berg 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781845201852
• ISBN-10: 184520185X
• Artikelnr.: 21672236

Autorenporträt

Robert Beachy is Assistant Professor of History at Goucher College, USA. Beatrice Craig is Associate Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Alastair Owens is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents 1. Introduction Beatrice Craig, Robert Beachy and Alastair Owens
2. 'Making some provision for the contingencies to which their sex is
particularly liable': Women and Investment in early nineteenth-century
England Alastair Owens (Queen Mary, University of London) 3. 'The Silent
Partners': Women, capital and the development of the financial system in
nineteenth century Sweden Tom Petersson (Uppsala University, Sweden) 4.
'Where have all the businesswomen gone?' Images and reality in the life of
nineteenth-century middle-class women in northern France Beatrice Craig
(University of Ottawa, Canada) 5. 'Profit and Propriety': Sophie Henschel
and gender management in the German locomotive industry Robert Beachy
(Goucher College, USA) 6. Artisan women and management in
nineteenth-century Barcelona Juanjo Romero-Marin 7. Women and Publishing in
Nineteenth Century Spain Gloria Espigado, University of Cadiz, Spain 8.
Businesswomen in Austria Irene Bandhauer-Schffmann (University of
Klagenfurt, Austria) 9. Belgium's Tradeswomen Valrie Piette (University of
Brussels, Belgium) 10. Limited Opportunities? Female retailing in
nineteenth-century Sweden Tom Ericsson (Umea University, Sweden) 11.
Retailing, respectability and the independent woman in nineteenth century
London Alison C. Kay (Research Fellow, Department of Geography, King's
College London) 12. Hidden Professions? Female 'placers' of domestic
servants in nineteenth-century Dutch cities Marlou Schrover (Leiden
University, The Netherlands) 13. The business of sex: Evaluating
prostitution in the German port city of Hamburg Julia Bruggeman (De Pauw
University, USA)