| Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe Contributor(s): Fuchs, Rachel Ginnis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521629268 ISBN-13: 9780521629263 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $43.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: In a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily family lives of poor European women in the nineteenth century, Rachel Fuchs powerfully conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing women in this period. She offers a fascinating study of their experience of birth, sex and death, as well as the changing responsibilities of individual family members and the transformations in society's responses to the problems of poverty. This accessible synthesis will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 305.489 |
| Series: New Approaches to European History |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.9" W x 6" (0.85 lbs) 282 pages |