Gender and urban economy 1400-1800, power, prosperity and poverty
The protection of urban trades in the old economies of Europe balanced upon an intricate system of gendered and household relations. The litterature for the seminar can be choosen from this reading list.
Overviews: ca. 100 pages from this list:
Hill, Bridget, Women, work and sexual politics in eighteenth century England, London 1994, Wiesner, Merry, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge 1993
Main list: ca. 700 pages from this list:
Women’s work in towns
Clark, Alice, “Crafts and trades”, Working life of women in the seventeenth century, (London 1919,) 1982 or later reprints.
Davis, Natalie Zemon, "Women in the Crafts in Sixteenth Century Lyon", :Feminist Studies 8-1982, 47-80
Hufton, Olwen, "Women in the French Family Economy in Eighteenth Century France", French Historical Studies 9, 1975, 1-22
Monter, E. William, "Women in Calvinist Geneva 1550-1800", Signs 6, 1980-81, 189-209
Ogilvie, Sheilagh, A bitter living. Women, markets, and social capital in early modern Germany, Oxford 2003, 1-38 206-352, 190s.
Wiesner, Merry E., Working Women in Renaissance Germany, New Brunswick 1986, 263
Guilds
Wiesner, Merry E., "Guilds, male bonding and women's work in early modern Germany", La donna nell' economia secc XIII-XVIII, Prato 1990, 655-669
Hill, Bridget, “Female Apprenticeship”, Women work and sexual politics ineighteenth century England, London 1994, 85-102
Authority
Howell Martha, Women, Production and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities, 1986
Howell, Martha, "Citizenship and Gender: Women's Political Status in Northern Medieval Cities", Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski (ed) Women & power in the middle ages, London 1988, 37-60
Family-property
Bull, Ida, Inheritance in Family Business. The "Long" Merchant Family: Problems Concerning Generation Change, Scandinavian Journal of History, 2002 Volum: 27:4
Davis, Natalie Zemon, “Arguing with God, Glikel Bas Judah Leib”, Women on the Margins. Three Seventeenth Century Lives, Cambridge 1997, 5-62
Disiplin
Lis, Catharina & Soly Hugo, Disordered Lives, Eighteenth Century Families and their Unruly Relatives. Polity Press, Cambridge, 1996
Schama, Simon, “The mystery of the drowning cell”,“Housewieves and Hussies:Homeliness and Wordliness”, Embarrassment of riches. An Interpretation of dutch culture in the golden age, Fontana 1988, 15-24, 375-480
Prostitution
Pool, Lotte v.d. “ The lure of the big city. Female migration to the Amsterdam,” 1994
Roper, Lyndal, Prostitution and Moral Order, The Holy household. Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg, Oxford 1989
The criminal classes
Sharpe, J.A. The criminal orders of early modern England, Crime in early modern England 1550-1750, London 1984,94-120, (gjerne også andre deler av boka)
Military institutions
Barton Hacker, Women and military institutions, Signs 1981, 643-671
Nordiske språk – opptil 200 sider fra disse artiklene/bøkene
Bladh, Christine, Månglerskor. Att sälja från korg och bod i Stockholm 1819-1846, Stockholm 1992
Bull, Ida, "Kvinners dagligliv i borgerskapet ca. 1780-1830", Historisk tidsskrift 4:1990
Bull, Ida, De trondhjemske handelshusene på 1700-tallet : slekt, hushold og forretning, Trondheim 1998
Dübeck, Inger, Købekoner og konkurrence. Studier over myndigheds- og erhvervsrettens udvikling med stadigt henblik på kvinders historiske retsstilling, København 1978
Jacobsen, Grethe, Kvinder, køn og købstadslovgining 1400-1600. Lovfaste Mænd og ærlige Kvinder, København 1995
Jacobsen, Grethe, "Rådmænd, borgere og borgersker. Køn , autoritet og magt i de senmiddelalderlige danske byer", B. P. McGuire (red) Autoritet i Middelalderen, København 1991
Karlsson, Åsa B., "Hustruens rättsliga ställning i svenska städer under stormaktstiden", i B.Gullikstad og K. Heitmann (red), Kjønn, makt, samfunn i Norden i et historisk perspektiv, bind 1. konferanserapport fra det 5. nordiske kvinnehistorikermøtet, Trondheim 1997, 254-255
Sandvik, Hilde, "Umyndige" kvinner i handel og håndverk. Kvinner i bynæringer i Christiania i siste halvdel av 1700-tallet", (1985) Oslo 1992
Sogner, Sølvi, Ung i Europa. Norsk ungdom over Nordsjøen til Nederland i tidlig nytid, Oslo 1994