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The Invisible Woman

Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino,Jacques Carré

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The Invisible Woman

Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino,Jacques Carré

Most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth century Britain have tended to concentrate on fairly large groups, such as factory workers or domestic servants, often in an attempt to reach some conclusions regarding their standards of living and social position. Another approach has lead feminist historians to search for underlying causes of women's exploitation through the locus of class and gender. Without ignoring these crucial issues, this volume written by cultural historians takes a slightly different approach, focusing on the status of small, sometimes tiny, groups of women holding marginal positions in the labour market, and often employed on an irregular basis. Women such as housekeepers, nurses, camp followers, governesses, actresses and musicians, to take some of the cases examined in this volume, generally did not have stable, permanent employment. Even female tradesmen often only worked for short periods of their lives. The temporary, unreliable character of such work can be partly related to the changing needs of women at different periods of their lives, but it also has much to do the status of women's work in eighteenth century British society. Providing case-studies of women's work in three different environments - middle and upper class households, male dominated communities and societies and the world of the arts - this collection asks fresh questions about women's aspirations and identity at various levels of society. In comparing and contrasting these varying spheres of female employment, this book throws in sharp relief the contrasting attitude to women's work inside and outside the home, and how the latter was often regarded as having a potentially destabilising and transgressive effect on British society.

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1351887351

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9781351887359

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino

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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000843386

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9781000843385

The Invisible Woman

Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino,Jacques Carré

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Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Isabelle Baudino,Jacques Carré

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The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman

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