Author: Mavis E. Mate
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851155340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.
Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death
Author: Mavis E. Mate
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851155340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851155340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.
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Daughters, Wives, and Widows
Author: Joan Larsen Klein
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Pages : 360
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Daughters, Wives, and Widows
Author: Joan Larsen Klein
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Widows: The Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific
Author: Helena Znaniecka Lopata
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307686
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
What happens whene the husband dies depends on the society, on the location of the widow in urban-rural or class terms, and on the widow's own personal resources. In some societies the woman is totally dependent upon a grown son and cannot remarry; in others, such as that in the United States, she is more dependent upon her own resouces and wishes. For some, widowhood results in a great loss of status; for others, it can mean loneliness and social isolation. Yet widowhood can mean greater social freedom for some women, a "blooming of personality. Even grief is experienced in various ways and degrees. Thus there is no such thing as a "widow type," only a great heterogenity in widowhood, as in "wifehood." Volume I analyzes the support systems and life-styles of widows in Australia, the Philippines, Korea, Iran, China, a Pacific island, India, Turkey, and Israel. Volume II : North America examines two communities in Canada, a Florida retirement community, and communities in several other locations, as well as the relative situations of homeowners, blacks, and poor ethnic populations.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307686
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
What happens whene the husband dies depends on the society, on the location of the widow in urban-rural or class terms, and on the widow's own personal resources. In some societies the woman is totally dependent upon a grown son and cannot remarry; in others, such as that in the United States, she is more dependent upon her own resouces and wishes. For some, widowhood results in a great loss of status; for others, it can mean loneliness and social isolation. Yet widowhood can mean greater social freedom for some women, a "blooming of personality. Even grief is experienced in various ways and degrees. Thus there is no such thing as a "widow type," only a great heterogenity in widowhood, as in "wifehood." Volume I analyzes the support systems and life-styles of widows in Australia, the Philippines, Korea, Iran, China, a Pacific island, India, Turkey, and Israel. Volume II : North America examines two communities in Canada, a Florida retirement community, and communities in several other locations, as well as the relative situations of homeowners, blacks, and poor ethnic populations.
Women as Widows
Author: Helena Znaniecka Lopata
Publisher: New York : Elsevier
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Publisher: New York : Elsevier
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Wives and Widows
Author: Ann Sophia Stephens
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Wives and Daughters
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Pages : 342
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Daughters, wives, and widows
Author: Paula J. Bailey
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Maids, Wives and Widows
Author: Rose Falls Bres
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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