Rural Economies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23604196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Whittle (0000-0002-4320-9301, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 311-326 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.024 |
| OpenAlex | W4237735984 |
| ISBN | 9780199582174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
The great majority of the population of medieval Europe lived and worked in the countryside. This article examines gender differences in access to land (the key resource), in patterns of work or "the gender division of labor," and in wage earning and wage payments. Work in agriculture, textile production, and food processing is discussed, as well as the nature of domestic work or housework. Although evidence of everyday life is slight or nonexistent in many periods and regions, it is possible to discern important changes across the medieval period in women's access to land and the gendered organization of work. Commercialization, demographic trends, and technological change all had an impact. Nonetheless, continuities in the type of work women did are also striking, particularly their exclusion from high-status and profitable activities, and their consistently low wages.
Agriculture · Commercialization · Demographic economics · Division of labour · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Population · Resource (disambiguation) · Rural area · Sociology · Wage · Work (physics) · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |