By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe ... police in port and garrison towns to detain any woman suspected of sex work and force her to submit to an invasive medical ...
are forced to do both men’s and women’s work. This book is dedicated to them and I hope it will prove useful, as I sincerely wish to assist them in these tasks’. Books by the most popular Polish ...
Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain, as they rarely earned enough to support themselves, let alone any children. For widows, children could be ...
The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...
A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish ... Parush is among the first scholars to work ...
“Bright Circle" brings together five women associated with Transcendentalism — a school of thought that arose in mid-19th-century Massachusetts ... with the men’s work than the women ...
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