Women and Their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and FinanceAnne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford This book examines women's financial activity from the early days of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how many women managed their own finances despite legal and social restrictions and show that women were neither helpless, incompetent and risk-averse, nor were they unduly cautious and conservative. Rather, many women learnt about money and made themselves effective and engaged managers of the funds at their disposal. The essays focus on Britain, from eighteenth-century London, to the expansion of British financial markets of the nineteenth century, with comparative essays dealing with the US, Italy, Sweden and Japan. Hitherto, writing about women and money has been restricted to their management of household finances or their activities as small business women. This book examines the clear evidence of women's active engagement in financial matters, much neglected in historical literature, especially women's management of capital. . |
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... financial matters, much neglectedin historical literature,especially women's management ofcapital. This book chartsthe sheer extent ofwomen's financialmanagement and providesfor economic, social, cultural andgender historiansmaterial ...
... Economic History atthe University of Bergamo, Italy. She graduated inEconomics in 1981 and completed her PhDin Economic andSocial History in 1998. Her researchinterests focus on theeconomic and social historyof nineteenthcentury Italy ...
... Economic Research. His research interests include monetary and financial history, European economic history and the economics of the European Union. Heispast presidentof the Economic History Association andthe Business History ...
... financial revolution in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the development of Stockholm as a financial centre fortheSwedish economy. Nancy Marie Robertson, BA, MA, PhD, is Associate Professor of History andthe ...
... history usuallydiscusstheeconomicsof women's lives in terms of poverty, powerlessness and absence of money and of waged and unwaged work. Women's financial affairs have made littleimpacton accounting history, business history or financial ...
Contents
financial acumen during the South | |
Women investors andfinancial knowledge in eighteenth | |
property manager and accountant 165 | |
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agender perspectiveonthe development of the Swedish financial | |
Japanese womenandfinanceundertheinfluenceofglobalization290 | |
Index 303 | |
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Women and Their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance Anne Laurence,Josephine Maltby,Janette Rutterford No preview available - 2009 |
Women and Their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance Anne Laurence,Josephine Maltby,Janette Rutterford No preview available - 2012 |