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100 1 Pennington, David,|d1977-
245 10 Going to market :|bwomen, trade and social relations in
early modern English towns, c. 1550-1650 /|cDavid
Pennington.
264 1 Farnham, Surrey, England :|bAshgate,|c[2015].
300 193 pages
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bn|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bnc|2rdacarrier
490 1 The history of retailing and consumption
500 Formerly CIP.|5Uk
505 0 <P>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
& raveth' after markets; Bibliography; Index.</P>
506 1 325 annual accesses.|5UkHlHU
520 8 Going to Market rethinks women's contributions to the
early modern commercial economy. A number of previous
studies have focused on whether or not the early modern
period closed occupational opportunities for women. By
attending to women's everyday business practices, and not
merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this
book shows that they could take advantage of new
commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree
of economic agency. This has implications for early modern
gender relations and commercial culture alike. For the
evidence analyzed here suggests that male householders and
town authorities alike accepted the necessity of women's
participation in the commercial economy, and that women's
assertiveness in marketplace dealings suggests how little
influence patriarchal prescriptions had over the way in
which men and women did business. The book also
illuminates England's departure from what we often think
of as a traditional economic culture. Because women were
usually in charge of provisioning the household, scholars
have seen them as the most ardent supporters of an early-
modern 'moral economy', which placed the interests of poor
consumers over the efficiency of markets. But the hard-
headed, hard-nosed tactics of market women that emerge in
this book suggests that a profit-oriented commercial
culture, far from being the preserve of wealthy merchants
and landowners, permeated early modern communities.
Through an investigation of a broad range of primary
sources-including popular literature, criminal records,
and civil litigation depositions-the study reconstructs
how women did business and negotiated with male
householders, authorities, customers, and competitors.
This analysis of the records shows women able to leverage
their commercial roles and social contacts to defend the
economic interests of their households and their
neighborhoods.
650 0 Women merchants|zEngland|xHistory|y16th century.
650 0 Women merchants|zEngland|xHistory|y17th century.
650 0 Women merchants|zEngland|xSocial conditions.
650 0 Women|zEngland|xEconomic conditions.
650 0 Markets|zEngland|xHistory.
650 0 Households|xEconomic aspects|zEngland|xHistory.
650 0 City and town life|zEngland|xHistory.
651 0 England|xCommerce|xHistory|y16th century.
651 0 England|xCommerce|xHistory|y17th century.
651 0 England|xSocial conditions.
830 0 History of retailing and consumption.
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