The Female Experience of Epidemics in the Early Modern Low Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6055046 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel R Curtis (0000-0001-8355-4153, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-20 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dutch Crossing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-6564 • E-ISSN: 1759-7854 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03096564.2020.1840134 |
| OpenAlex | W3097348111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 43 |
Recent literature has argued that women in parts of the early \nmodern Low Countries experienced high levels of ‘agency’ and \n‘independence’ – measured through ages and rates of marriage, \nparticipation in economic activities beyond the household, and the \nphysical occupation of collective or public spaces. Epidemic disease \noutbreaks, however, also help bring into focus a number of female \nburdens and hardships in the early modern Low Countries, possibly \nborn out of structural inequalities and vulnerabilities obscured from \nview in ‘normal times’, and which is supported by recent demographic \nresearch showing heightened adult female mortality compared \nto male during epidemics. For women, these included \nexpectations of care both inside and outside the familial household, \ndifferent forms of persecution, and social controls via authorities \nfrom above and internal regulation within communities from \nbelow – though these were also restrictions that women of course \ndid not always passively accept, and sometimes violently rejected
Agency (philosophy · Demographic economics · Developed country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Independence (probability theory · Inequality · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |