Women, Business, and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres

Book Overview

Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of 'separate spheres' -- whereby men operated in the public world of work and women in the private realm of the domestic. Drawing on case studies throughout Europe, this book reveals that there was much greater diversity in women's economic experience across all social strata than has previously been understood. International contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184520185X
• ISBN13: 9781845201852
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Berg 3pl
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"