In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments--from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses--although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal how women at all levels of society negotiated these structures with determination and ingenuity in order to provide for themselves and their families. Recent historiography on women and work in eighteenth-century France has focused on the model of the "family economy," in which women's work existed as part of the communal effort to keep the family afloat, usually in support of the patriarch's occupation. The ten essays in this volume offer case studies.
...MoreReview John Pannabecker (2015) Review of "Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France". Technology and Culture (pp. 978-980).
Chapter Nancy Locklin (2015) Women and Work Identity. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Judith A. DeGroat (2015) Women in the Paris Manufacturing Trades at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century: Continuity and Change. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter James B. Collins (2015) Women and the Birth of Modern Consumer Capitalism. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Jacob D. Melish (2015) The Power of Wives: Managing Money and Men in the Family Businesses of Old Regime Paris. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Cynthia M. Truant (2015) Many Exceptional Women: Female Artists in Old Regime Paris. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Jane McLeod (2015) Printer Widows and the State in Eighteenth-Century France. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Nina Kushner (2015) The Business of Being Kept: Elite Prostitution as Work. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Rafe Blaufarb (2015) The Phenomenon of Female Lordship: The Example of the Comtesse De Sade. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Jennifer L. Palmer (2015) Women and Contracts in the Age of Transatlantic Commerce. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
Chapter Daryl M. Hafter (2015) French Industrial Growth in Women's Hands. In: Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France.
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