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Date accessed: 10 May, 2024. Work in the 18th century has long been neglected by historians, who have focused instead on other aspects of economic life: notably consumption, but also on the legal structures of inheritance and marriage which shaped working lives over the life cycle.
- Women in Business, 1700–1850
Taking milliners as an example, it was most often anxieties...
- Women in Business, 1700–1850
16 de abr. de 2024 · 18th Century Women and Gender Studies Sources. The following resources are major tools for finding digitized texts related to the history of women and gender. A collection of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.
18 de abr. de 2024 · Drawing on an international cross-section of experts this colorful new book presents the story of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions as a part of wider, intertwined, global narrative. Vivid text and images provide a context for our understanding of these major social upheavals and their lasting influence on contemporary society.
Hace 2 días · She critiques what she sees as the orthodoxy of women's history: that during the eighteenth century women were forced into a passive, feminine role in a secluded domestic private sphere, helpless and deprived of any public place.
18 de abr. de 2024 · In 1789 French women were largely confined to the private sphere. Domestic duty and family obligation dictated their behavior, and the public life was a man’s domain. However the ideas of equality and brotherhood that sparked the French Revolution captivated women from all backgrounds.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Mid- to late eighteenth-century portraits of aristocratic white women reveal a similar determination 'to see' white skin. Artists used white female skin as a medium with which to produce a physical and emotional response from the viewer; it was also a way to project and deflect Britain's heightened involvement in the transatlantic ...
