Working Women of Early Modern Venice (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

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In this groundbreaking book, Monica Chojnacka argues that the women of early brand new Venice occupied a more socially powerful space than traditionally believed. Fairly than focusing exclusively on the women of noble or rich merchant families, Chojnacka explores the lives of women―unmarried, married, or widowed―who worked for a living and helped keep the city running through their labor, services and products, and products.

Among Chojnacka’s surprising findings is the degree to which these working women exercised keep watch over over their own lives. Many headed households and even owned their own homes; when necessary, they also took in and supported other women of their families. Some were self-employed, even as others had jobs out of doors the home. They steadily moved freely about the city to conduct business, and so they took legal action in the courts on their own behalf. Each day, Venetian women worked, traveled, and contested obstacles in ways that made the city their own.


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