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Author:   Raffaella Sarti ,  Anna Bellavitis ,  Manuela Martini
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   30
ISBN:  

9781789208023

ISBN 10:   1789208025
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   01 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures and Tables Introduction: What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: THE FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE DELABORIZATION OF HOUSEHOLD WORK Chapter 1. Family Work: A Policy-Relevant Intellectual History Nancy Folbre Chapter 2. Productive and Reproductive Work: Uses and Abuses of an Old Dichotomy Alessandra Pescarolo Chapter 3. The Home as a Factory: Rethinking the Debate on Housewives' Wages in Italy, 1929-1980 Alessandra Gissi PART II: THE CUNNING HISTORIAN: UNVEILING AND OVERCOMING THE GENDER BIAS OF SOURCES Chapter 4. The Statistical Construction of Women's Work and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Spain (1856-1930) Cristina Borderias Chapter 5. Toiling Women, Non-Working Housewives and Rightful Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy Raffaella Sarti Chapter 6. The Complexities of Work: Analyzing Men's and Women's Work in the Early Modern World with the Verb-Oriented Method Maria Agren Chapter 7. The Visibility of Women's Work: Logics and Contexts of Documents' Production Margareth Lanzinger PART III: THE VALUE OF CARE AND UNPAID HOME-BASED WORK: THE ROLE OF THE LAW Chapter 8. Regulating Home Labours: The ILO and the Feminization of Work Eileen Boris Chapter 9. Family-Relations Law between Stratification and Resistance . Housework and Family Law Exceptionalism Maria Rosaria Marella Chapter 10. Could Family (Care) Work Be Paid? From French Agricultural Inheritance Law (1939) to Legal Recognition of Excessive Filial Duty (1994) Florence Weber PART IV: CONCLUSION Conclusion: Can We Construct a Holistic Approach to Women's Labor History over the Longue Duree? Laura Lee Downs Index

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One of the strong points of this volume is the excellent theoretical framework offered by its editors. They begin with a solid introduction that not only serves to present the contributions but also allows to pose questions and to raise the problems approached in this volume...This work of very high quality helps to understand the multiple forms of first female and then feminist mobilization regarding the definition and redistribution of the work accomplished by women in the domestic sphere. - Clio

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Raffaella Sarti is Associate Professor of Early Modern History and Gender History at the University of Urbino, Italy, and is a member of the editorial collective of Gender & History. Her studies address family and material culture, women's work, domestic service, Mediterranean slavery, masculinity, and graffiti, among other topics. She is the author of numerous publications in nine languages.

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