Year: 1969
Type: book-review
Abstract: In Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities, Martha C. Howell addresses a problem that has occupied medievalists for the last cen- tury: how to account for women's economic participation and social status at the end of the Middle Ages.Carefully reviewing the work of her predeces- sors, Howell finds no adequate explanation for the process by which women, in great numbers, first entered the labour force and after left it.Demographers have suggested that women entered trades in a period of population imbalance, during which there was a shortage of men.Women left the market when the natural population balance was again restored.
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4298038437