Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885

by Susan I. Lewis and Susan I. Lewis

Book Overview

Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 by Susan Ingalls Lewis challenges our conceptions about mid-nineteenth-century American women, business, and labor, offering a detailed study of female proprietors in one industrializing American city. Analyzing the careers of more than two thousand women who owned or operated businesses between 1830 and 1885, Lewis argues that business provided...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814255329
• ISBN13: 9780814255322
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"