HSTR 342A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marriage Records, Nuclear Family, Middle Ages
13 Oct 2018
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Women and children: voices hard to access now - employment records, birth and death records, marriage records. ): business woman, financial officer of a large corporation in the 1770s; wives of entrepreneurs often very involved in business; some women excelled in academia i. e. laura bassy (?) these are rare though: cf. Women in the french revolution (will come back to this) Not always inferior (i. e. poland), but usually in marriages in poland some things were protected especially if there were no children. More vulnerable: women sometimes, in desperation, turn to infanticide, stigma to unwed mothers often turn to prostitution, might have (cid:271)ee(cid:374) less of a (cid:862)falle(cid:374) state(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:272)o(cid:374)tested histo(cid:396)i(cid:272)al a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:895, could leave an illegitimate child at a family hospital. Widows could be heads of households, participate in local politics. Methodism allowed a bigger role for women. Not necessarily as overwhelmingly patriarchal as we assume: some advocates fo(cid:396) e(cid:395)uality (cid:894)de(cid:271)ates do(cid:374)"t (cid:396)eally (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge/develop i(cid:374) this (cid:272)e(cid:374)tu(cid:396)y(cid:895)
