Domestic Service And Gender 1660 1750

Author : Tim Meldrum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317883586

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Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750 by Tim Meldrum Pdf

In this exciting new study Tim Meldrum explores the "real lives" of domestic servants. From close examination of court records and other documentary evidence, he has reconstructed the lives of ordinary domestic servants in London. A revealing account of life below the stairs, the gendered nature of domestic service, how different members of the household interacted with one another, it makes a valuable contribution to the "separate spheres" debate.

Author : Timothy Meldrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1181333102

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Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750 by Timothy Meldrum Pdf

Author : Pamela Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134586646

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Women, Gender and Labour Migration by Pamela Sharpe Pdf

New and original research which fills a gap in the market of migration studies Covers a broad range of topics Clearly and accessibly written

Author : Paula Humfrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351889995

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The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London by Paula Humfrey Pdf

The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. Exposed here are the contractual underpinnings of domestic service for women; the mobility that domestic servants enjoyed; and the concern that this mobility generated in the authorities. Paid domestic work has traditionally been regarded by historians simply as a pre-marital phase of women's lives. In fact, the depositions in this volume show that service was a prototypical form of female wage labour. While some women left service once they married, others relied on domestic positions as an avenue to generating income as life-long single women, as married women, and as widows. Even though they usually lived in poverty, labouring women who worked as servants in London had considerably more agency than has earlier been recognized. Female servants who deposed before London ecclesiastical and parish courts three centuries ago were mostly non-literate. Strikingly, their individual voices are clear and distinct as they present information about their working and personal circumstances.

Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351995740

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The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience by Deborah Simonton Pdf

Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural, spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European, North American and colonial towns from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, casting new light on the development of medieval and modern settlements across the globe. Organised into six thematic parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, this book comprises 36 chapters by key scholars in the field. It covers a wide range of topics, from women and citizenship in medieval York to gender and tradition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African cities, reframing our understanding of the role of gender in constructing the spaces and places that form our urban environment. Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, this volume analyses the individual dynamics of each case study while also examining the complex relationships and exchanges between urban cultures. It is a valuable resource for all researchers and students interested in gender, urban history and their intersection and interaction throughout the past five centuries.

Author : Julia Martínez,Claire Lowrie,Frances Steel,Victoria Haskins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350056749

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Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific by Julia Martínez,Claire Lowrie,Frances Steel,Victoria Haskins Pdf

Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108496995

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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

This new edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to reflect the newest scholarship in every chapter.

Author : T. Evans
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230509856

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Unfortunate Objects by T. Evans Pdf

This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish as well as London's lying-in hospitals and the Foundling Hospital. It suggests that unmarried mothers did not constitute a deviant minority within London's plebeian community. In fact, many could expect to find compassion rather than ostracism a response to their plight. All poor mothers, left without the support of their child's father, shared similar strategies of survival and economies of makeshift.

Author : Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039105892

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Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity by Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Pdf

Before the Servant Project began its activities, on the initiative of the editor of this book, the long term history of domestic service was still in its beginning stage. This volume is the first wide-ranging attempt to determine the role of domestic workers both in past and present times. Domestic service was of major importance in the multi-secular process of urbanization and socio-economic development of European societies. Today, domestic workers (mainly women) represent an important component of international labour migrations to Western countries. Instead of disappearing, as expected for a long time, paid domestic work is currently experiencing a kind of «resurgence». The contributions assembled in this volume analyze the situation of domestic workers, and contribute to improve knowledge concerning their individual characteristics (gender, ethnic group, religion), origin, motivation and cultural identity, relationship with their own families and those of the employers. Further topics are connections with the home country and place of destination, legal status, rights and duties, in order to understand the current globalization of domestic work.

Author : Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230620391

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Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by Michelle M. Dowd Pdf

Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.

Author : Jonah Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009305181

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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England by Jonah Miller Pdf

This book traces the beginnings of a shift from one model of gendered power to another. Over the course of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, traditional practices of local government by heads of household began to be undermined by new legal ideas about what it meant to hold office. In London, this enabled the emergence of a new kind of officeholding and a new kind of policing, rooted in a fraternal culture of official masculinity. London officers arrested, searched, and sometimes assaulted people on the basis of gendered suspicions, especially poorer women. Gender and Policing in Early Modern England describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs and addresses wider questions about the relationship between gender and the state.

Author : Michael Bundock
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300207101

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The Fortunes of Francis Barber by Michael Bundock Pdf

The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England's most distinguished man of letters This compelling book chronicles a young boy's journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London's literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis Barber, born in Jamaica, was brought to London by his owner in 1750 and became a servant in the household of the renowned Dr. Samuel Johnson. Although Barber left London for a time and served in the British navy during the Seven Years' War, he later returned to Johnson's employ. A fascinating reversal took place in the relationship between the two men as Johnson's health declined and the older man came to rely more and more upon his now educated and devoted companion. When Johnson died he left the bulk of his estate to Barber, a generous (and at the time scandalous) legacy, and a testament to the depth of their friendship. There were thousands of black Britons in the eighteenth century, but few accounts of their lives exist. In uncovering Francis Barber's story, this book not only provides insights into his life and Samuel Johnson's but also opens a window onto London when slaves had yet to win their freedom.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521873727

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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

The third edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks' prize-winning book incorporates the newest scholarship and features a new chapter on gender and race in the colonial world; expanded coverage of eighteenth century developments including the Enlightenment; and enhanced discussions of masculinity, single women, same-sex relations, humanism, and women's religious roles.

Author : M. Kilkey,D. Perrons,A. Plomien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137303936

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Gender, Migration and Domestic Work by M. Kilkey,D. Perrons,A. Plomien Pdf

Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, exploring issues such as increasing inequality, migration, the rise of commoditized domestic services, contemporary masculinities and the gendering of paid work.

Author : Chloe Wigston Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107276758

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Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Chloe Wigston Smith Pdf

This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress's transformative potential, it charts the novel's vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies, and paper was made of rags, the novel, by contrast, resisted the rhetorical and aesthetic links between dress and expression, style and sentiment. Chloe Wigston Smith shows how fiction exploited women's work with clothing - through stealing, sex work, service, stitching, and the stage - in order to revise and reshape material culture within its pages. Her book explores a diverse group of authors, including Jane Barker, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, John Cleland, Frances Burney and Mary Robinson.