Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century -- 2 Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzcoa (Northern Spain) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 3 Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northern Europe before the First World War -- 4 Women, Households and Independence under the Old English Poor Laws -- 5 The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Century -- 6 Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994-2004): Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Programme -- 7 Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century: Gender-Differentiated Patterns and Destinies -- 8 Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria: Separate Property, Usufruct and Ownership in Different Family Configurations -- Notes -- Index.

This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period.

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