Search for dissertations about: "Elise Dermineur"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Elise Dermineur.

2. 1. Women in rural communities : Peasants, patriarchy and the local economy in Northeast France, 1650-1789

   Author : Elise Dermineur; James Farr; USA Indiana West Lafayette Purdue University; []
   Keywords : Women; gender; peasants; early modern France; historia; History;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates gender relationships and the role of women in French rural society in the seventeenth and eighteenth century from two different perspectives—economic and socio-legal. I not only show female peasants’ social importance as I demonstrate that they had a prominent role not only within their respective households but also within their communities, but I also demonstrate that women were not as passive and submissive as the traditional historiography and common assumptions have asserted. READ MORE