Poor Women and Children in the European Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8852091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela Sharpe, Richard Walls (0000-0002-0913-3200) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 629-629 |
| Publication date | 1995-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Poor women and children in the European past, John Henderson, 1994 |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2598201 |
| OpenAlex | W2047943609 |
| Language | EN |
Introduction Section 1: Children 1. Family Structures and the Early Phase in the Individual Life-cycle: A Southern European Perspective Pier Paolo Viazzo 2. Illegitimacy and the Abandonment of Children in the Basque Country, 1500-1800 Lola Valverde 3. 'Perche non avea chi la ghovernasse'. Cultural Values, Family Resources and Abandonment in teh Florence of Lorenzo de Medici, 1467-1485 Philip Gavitt 4. Between the Home and the Hospice. The Plight and Fate of Girl Orphans in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Rome Eugenio Sonnino 5. The Abandonment of Legitimate Children in Nineteenth-Century Milan and the European Context Volker Hunecke Section 2: Women 6. Mothers at Risk of Poverty in the Medieval English Countryside Elaine Clark 7. Women, Children and Poverty in Florence at the Time of the Black Death John Henderson 8. The Status of Widows in Sixteenth-Century Rural Castile David E. Vassburg 9. Never-Married Women in Town and Country in Eighteenth-Century Denmark Hans Chr. Johansen 10. The Household Position of Elderly Widows in Poverty: Evidence from Two English Communities in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Thomas Sokoll 11. Poverty, the Life-cycle and Female Trajectories: A Mediterrranean Case Study: Corsica in the Eighteeenth Century Antoine Marchini 12. Transitions into Old Age: Poverty and Retirement Possibilities in Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Ireland Gisli A. Gunnlaugsson and Loftur Guttormsson 13. Widowhood and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Nottinghamshire Sonya O. Rose 14. Avoiding Poverty: Strategies for Women in Rural Ireland, 1880-1914 Joanna Bourke 15. Some Implications of the Earnings, Income and Expenditure Patterns of Married Women in Populations in the Past Richard Wall
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| Highly cited | No |