Women, work, and sexual politics in eighteenth-century England /
[Book]
Bridget Hill.
New York, NY, USA :
B. Blackwell,
1989.
viii, 275 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Pinchbeck and after -- The social context -- Women's work in the family economy -- The undermining of the family economy -- Female servants in husbandry -- Female apprenticeship -- Housework -- Domestic service -- Ignored, unrecorded, and invisible : some occupations of women -- The economics of courtship and marriage -- Clarity and obscurity in the law relating to wives, property, and marriage -- Spinsters and spinsterhood -- Widows.