Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

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Editor: Beatrice Moring

Perspectives in Economic and Social History

This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Britain, Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period. The central argument of many contributors is that, far from some accepted stereotypes, women throughout history have not been passive in dealing with their economic needs, and that older women in particular had more agency than has previously been assumed.

Readership

Social and Economic History, Women's Studies

Contents

Introduction: Women and the Family, Work or Poverty and Isolation – Beatrice Moring
1 Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century – Richard Wall
2 The Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzoca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries – Maria Dolores Valverde Lamfus
3 Women, Work, Survival Strategies and the Hidden Economy – Beatrice Moring
4 Women, Households and Independence under the Old English Laws – Susannah Ottaway
5 The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Century – Anne-Lise Head
6 Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994–2001), The Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer programme – Ana Patricia Sosa Ferreira and Verónica Villarespe Reyes
7 Female Strategies and Emigration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century – Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
8 The Logic of Separating Poverty: Rights of Usufruct and Ownership in Different Couple and Family Configurations – Margareth Lanziger

Related titles

• British Family Life, 1780–1914
• Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• The History of Old Age in England, 1600–1800
• Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America: The Development of Social Insurance

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