Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 052162102X
ISBN-13 : 9780521621021
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Book Synopsis Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe by : Rachel G. Fuchs

Download or read book Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe written by Rachel G. Fuchs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new 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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