Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

by Rachel G. Fuchs

Book Overview

In a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily family lives of poor European women in the nineteenth century, Rachel Fuchs powerfully conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing women in this period. She offers a fascinating study of their experience of birth, sex and death, as well as the changing responsibilities of individual family members and the transformations in society's responses to the problems of poverty. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521629268
• ISBN13: 9780521629263
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 6.0"