Gendering the Black Death
Women in Later Medieval England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22940306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S H Rigby (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 745-754 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-5233 • E-ISSN: 1468-0424 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0424.00210 |
| OpenAlex | W1979989914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
This review article of Mavis Mate's Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death: Women in Sussex, 1350–1535 (1998) locates Mate's work within the broader context of the debate about changes in women's social position caused by the collapse in population following the Black Death. Was demographic decline accompanied by growing social and economic opportunities for women or should historians emphasise the continuity of female work as low‐skilled, low‐status and low‐paid throughout the late medieval and early modern periods? How did women's role in the labour market affect the age of marriage, fertility rates and long‐term population change? In general, Mate's conclusions offer support to the ‘pessimists’: women's work was vital to the household but economic centrality did not bring a commensurate social power or legal rights and the ideology of female subordination remained firmly in place. The main problem with Mate's case is, inevitably, a lack of evidence, for family structure, for the sexual division of labour and, above all, for affective relations. Nevertheless, this detailed, empirically based local study shows how successfully women's history has moved into the historical mainstream.
Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Economics · Fertility · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · Women's work · Work (physics) · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
The Decline of Serfdom and the Origins of the ‘Little Divergence’
A New Equilibrium? Economy and Society, 1375 to 1400
Reaction and Regulation, 1349 to 1380
Calculations in Table 7.3
A Mystery within an Enigma. The Economy 1355 to 1375
Old Problems, New Approaches
Injustice and Revolt
Conclusion
Weaving in Late Fourteenth-Century Yorkshire
Two worlds of female labour
Social Representations of Memory and Gender in Later Medieval England
The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850
Penthésilée, reine des Amazones et Preuse, une image de la femme guerrière à la fin du Moyen Âge
Urban population in late medieval England
| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |