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9780801864858 Academic Inspection Copy

Working Women of Early Modern Venice

  • ISBN-13: 9780801864858
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Monica Chojnacka
  • Price: AUD $135.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/03/2001
  • Format: Hardback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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In this groundbreaking book, Monica Chojnacka argues that the women of early modern Venice occupied a more socially powerful space than traditionally believed. Rather than focusing exclusively on the women of noble or wealthy merchant families, Chojnacka explores the lives of women–unmarried, married, or widowed–who worked for a living and helped keep the city running through their labor, services, and products. Among Chojnacka's surprising findings is the degree to which these working women exercised control over their own lives. Many headed households and even owned their own homes; when necessary, they also took in and supported other women of their families. Some were self-employed, while others had jobs outside the home. They often moved freely about the city to conduct business, and they took legal action in the courts on their own behalf. On a daily basis, Venetian women worked, traveled, and contested obstacles in ways that made the city their own.

""The book's great strength undoubtedly lies in the data gathered here about the large numbers of women who did not belong to the small elite groups... It modestly but assertively asks us to review our opinions about gender and the Italian city, and about working women in early modern Europe.""

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