Women in business, 1700-1850 / Nicola Phillips.
Material type: TextPublisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press, 2006Description: xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 184383183X
- 9781843831839
- Women in business, seventeen hundred -eighteen fifty
- Women in business, 1700 to 1850
- 305.4209410903 22
- HD6054.4.G7 P485 2006
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 305.4209410903 PHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A397110B |
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305.42094 WOM Women and social policy : a reader / | 305.420941 LOV Contemporary feminist politics : women and power in Britain / | 305.420941 PIL Women of their time : generation, gender issues, and feminism / | 305.4209410903 PHI Women in business, 1700-1850 / | 305.420942 FOR Significant sisters : the grassroots of active feminism, 1839-1939 / | 305.420944 ALL French feminisms : gender and violence in contemporary theory / | 305.420944 BEY Beyond French feminisms : debates on women, politics, and culture in France, 1980-2001 / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-286) and index.
1. Introduction : the business of life or a life in business -- 2. Legal fictions vs. legal facts : common law, coverture and married women in business -- 3. A customary privilege? : common law, borough custom and the feme sole trader -- 4. Trading 'according to equity and good conscience' : businesswomen in Chancery -- 5. 'The friendship of the world' : female business networks in eighteenth-century Durham -- 6. Women and the business of insurance, 1735 to 1845 -- 7. A risky business : businesswomen, property and insurance strategies, 1735 to 1845 -- 8. 'The Bonaparte of her day'? : gender, trade and nationalism -- 9. 'This publick method' : women, trade and advertising in eighteenth-century London -- 10. 'A heavy bill to settle with humanity'? : nineteenth-century businesswomen in millinery and dressmaking.
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