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Title: Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities
Author : Martha C. Howell
Release Date : January 15, 2009
Genre: History,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
Pages : * pages
Size : 2199 KB

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In this bold reinterpretation of Women’s changing labor status during the late medieval and early modern period, Martha C. Howell argues that women’s work was the product of the intersection of two systems, one cultural and one economic. Howell shows forcefully that patriarchal family structure, not capitalist development per se, was a decisive factor in determining women’s work. Women could enjoy high labor status if they worked within a family production unit or if their labor did not interfere with their domestic responsibilities or threaten male control of a craft or trade.