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Professions, women’s
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Women took part in almost all fields of early modern working life (Work), including crafts and trades, commerce (Trade), industry (Industrial trades and crafts), “public” offices, art, and education (Bildung). The confidence that they were qualified to perform particular activities derived primarily from experience and the acquisition of practical skills. Possession of formal qualifications, for instance, for a profession, was of secondary importance. The work a woman could do, the economic stat…
Date:
2021-03-15
Housewife
(982 words)
The term “housewife” refers to the house or household as the central unit of social life in European countries. In early modern sources, the word is generally synonymous with house mother (Mater familias). Depending on the context, housewife denotes either the wife (marriage, when the family situation is in view) or the manager of the household (when the focus is on economic activity), with many rights and obligations in her capacity as house mother; she could be represented by a bourgeois housekeeper or a noble housema’am. From the late-18th century on, the term “housewife” (
Hausfrau…
Date:
2019-10-14
