Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England

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Although housework is acknowledged by social historians to be one in all women’s responsibilities, Hill is likely one of the few historians to concentrate on the household as crucial unit of production within the eighteenth century. She examines the work done by women within the circle of relatives economy, including housework, agriculture, and manufacturing. She also considers a whole range of women’s activities which were in large part ignored by historians, including domestic service, apprenticeship, and plenty of occupations that went unrecorded in censuses. Highlighting the implications of the increasing division of labour in keeping with sex, Hill considers how the changing nature of women’s work influenced courtship, marriage, and relations between the sexes. She pays particular attention to the situation of spinsters and widows.
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