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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... chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved. No partofthis book maybereprinted or reproducedor utilised in anyformor byany electronic, mechanical, orother means,now known orhereafter invented,including photocopying and recording ...
... chapters deal with Britain, which, after the Netherlands, had the earliest financial markets. Chapters on other countries show how differences in legalsystems, in marriage practices andin financial institutionscould have an impactupon ...
... putsit, speculationwas domesticated. 12 But the purpose ofthe chapters inthis volume isnotmerely to fill in amissing pieceofhistory, itis alsotodrawattentionto the fact that financial behaviour takes many different forms. Women are.
... , especially in relationtowomen's capacity to own and freely to dispose of property, to dowries and to dower,andalsofrom uneven economic development between countries. Class The chapters in this volume covering earlier periods deal.
... chapters in this volume covering earlier periods deal with upper and middleclass women, since these were the women who had money to dispose of. They extend the workstarted by Peter Earle on the middle classes in lateseventeenth and ...
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 |