Introduction: Households, marketplaces, and neighborhoods -- Prescription, anxiety, and acceptance : representations of market women in popular culture -- Cooperation and conflict : women, commerce, and the household economy -- Traders, hucksters, and creditors : independent tradeswomen and the commerce of early modern towns -- Conflicting interests, common interests : female traders, marital status and town authorities -- Women, commerce, and female reputation -- When to give and when to gouge : bargaining, neighborliness, and the limits of the moral economy -- The potency of women's words : gossip, slander, and the enforcement of plain dealing -- Women, protest, and marketplace politics -- Conclusion: To "runneth and raveth" after markets.
Ämnesord
Kvinnor (sao)
Ekonomiska förhållanden (sao)
Handel -- historia (sao)
Women merchants -- England -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)
Women merchants -- England -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)
Women merchants -- England -- Social conditions. (LCSH)
Women -- England -- Economic conditions. (LCSH)
Markets -- England -- History. (LCSH)
Households -- Economic aspects -- England -- History. (LCSH)
City and town life -- England -- History. (LCSH)
Women (LCSH)
England -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)
England -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)