EAN: 9783319308791

Bilder-Quelle: shopping24.de – Sport

Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status economic opportunity and gender roles in nineteenth-century society. Sources including trade directories census returns probate records newspapers advertisements and photographs are analysed and linked to demonstrate conclusively that women in nineteenth-century England were far more prevalent in business than previously acknowledged. Moreover women were able to establish and expand their businesses far beyond the scope of inter-generational caretakers in sectors of the economy traditionally viewed as unfeminine and acquire the assets and possessions that were necessary to secure middle-class status. These women serve as a powerful reminder that the middle-class woman's retreat from economic activity during the nineteenth-century so often accepted as axiomatic was not the case. In fact women continued to act as autonomous and independent entrepreneurs and used business ownership asa platform to participate in the economic philanthropic and political public sphere.

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