Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349539871)

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.

Author: T. Earenfight
ISBN-10: 1349539872
ISBN-13: 9781349539871
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2010
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d