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Author Pennington, David, 1977-
Title Going to market : women, trade and social relations in early modern English towns, c. 1550-1650 / David Pennington.
Publisher Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2015].



Descript 193 pages
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Contents <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>
Note 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.
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781317126164 (e-book)
9781472443700 (hbk.) :
9781472443724 (ePub) :
9781472443717 (ebook)
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Author Pennington, David, 1977-
Series The history of retailing and consumption
History of retailing and consumption.
Subject Women merchants -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Women merchants -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Women merchants -- England -- Social conditions.
Women -- England -- Economic conditions.
Markets -- England -- History.
Households -- Economic aspects -- England -- History.
City and town life -- England -- History.
England -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century.
England -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
England -- Social conditions.
Descript 193 pages
Content text txt
Media computer n
Carrier online resource nc
Note Formerly CIP.
Contents <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>
Note 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.
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781317126164 (e-book)
9781472443700 (hbk.) :
9781472443724 (ePub) :
9781472443717 (ebook)
Author Pennington, David, 1977-
Series The history of retailing and consumption
History of retailing and consumption.
Subject Women merchants -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Women merchants -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Women merchants -- England -- Social conditions.
Women -- England -- Economic conditions.
Markets -- England -- History.
Households -- Economic aspects -- England -- History.
City and town life -- England -- History.
England -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century.
England -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
England -- Social conditions.

Subject Women merchants -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Women merchants -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Women merchants -- England -- Social conditions.
Women -- England -- Economic conditions.
Markets -- England -- History.
Households -- Economic aspects -- England -- History.
City and town life -- England -- History.
England -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century.
England -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
England -- Social conditions.
Descript 193 pages
Content text txt
Media computer n
Carrier online resource nc
Note Formerly CIP.
Contents <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>
Note 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.
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781317126164 (e-book)
9781472443700 (hbk.) :
9781472443724 (ePub) :
9781472443717 (ebook)

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