Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

A history of the dramatic changes in the lives of poor women in nineteenth-century Europe.

Autorentext
Rachel G. Fuchs is Professor of History at the Arizona State University. Her previous publications include Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century (1992) and Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914 (as co-editor, 1995).

Klappentext
This book is a major history of the dramatic changes in the lives of poor women in nineteenth-century Europe.

Zusammenfassung
This book is a major history of the dramatic changes in the daily family lives of poor European women in the nineteenth century. Rachel Fuchs powerfully conveys the difficulties facing women. This accessible synthesis will be essential reading for students of gender studies, urban history and social and family history.

Inhalt
1. The revolutionary era, 1770-1815; 2. Population and poverty; 3. Rural society and the problems of poverty; 4. Working in the cities; 5. Life in the cities; 6. Charity and welfare.

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