Sisters Together
Women without Men in Seventeenth-Century French Village Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Cashmere (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-62 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036319909602100104 |
| OpenAlex | W1973507126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It is often assumed that the institution of the family and all that implied in terms of patriarchal power, settlement patterns, and inheritance customs restricted women within village communities. This article sets out to explore the possibility that there were female-centered households in seventeenth-century France, based on sibling relationships, that these households did not require male suzerainty, and that they may have survived in village communities with the support offemale networks operating through the evening spinning bees. The article focuses on texts that represent a legal dispute over a village fire in Normandy toward the end of the seventeenth century and on the complex ways in which male voices in these texts constituted the lives of the female villagers involved
Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Institution · Political science · Sibling · Sociology · Anthropology · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |