Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England

A reassessment of women's experience of work in 18th-century England, and the effects it had on industrialization and other economic, social and technological changes. It also examines how this influenced marriage and relations between the sexes.

Bridget Hill

Chapter 1 Introduction: Pinchbeck and After; Chapter 2 The Social Context; Chapter 3 Women's Work in the Family Economy; Chapter 4 The Undermining of the Family Economy; Chapter 5 Female Servants in Husbandry; Chapter 6 Female Apprenticeship; Chapter 7 Housework; Chapter 8 Domestic Service; Chapter 9 Ignored, Unrecorded, and Invisible: Some Occupations of Women; Chapter 10 The Economics of Courtship and Marriage; Chapter 11 Clarity and Obscurity in the Law Relating to Wives, Property, and Marriage; Chapter 12 Spinsters and Spinsterhood; Chapter 13 Widows; Chapter 14 Conclusion;