Titlebook: Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe; Anna Bellavitis Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exc

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The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach: Intellectual and Artistic Work as a Professiono education in Catholic and Protestant Europe, and the possibilities that women had to make their living as teachers. The intellectual and artistic work as a profession for women is examined through the careers of some female intellectual and artists: scientists, actresses, singers, journalists, pai

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Servants and Slavesrespects ‘suitable’ for women, in others, however, particularly risky for them. In early modern Europe, and especially around the Mediterranean, domestic slaves continued to exist, and to be bought, sold and given away as gifts. The evolution of domestic service followed specific patterns, in Europe

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Midwivesth at local and state levels, is that of the midwife. It was a matter of ensuring that reproduction occurred in the best possible conditions, but also of avoiding abortions and infanticide by subjecting traditional women’s practices and knowledge to ever stricter control. The result was that the med

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Bodies as Resourcespossible form of exploitation but also a job like any other job that uses the female body as a resource. During the early modern times, it was the object of increased attention by the political and religious powers and of contradictory policies in Catholic and Protestant Europe.

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Silk and Skillnes the organisation of silk manufacture in different European cities, focusing on some specific cases, and on the evolution of the place of women in the silk weavers guilds. A special attention is paid to illegal activities, such as the theft of silk thread.

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In the Market Placeaught by their husbands; they traded in used goods or as itinerant or semi-permanent traders, a vital activity in urban economies. Specific female organisations of retailers existed in many European cities. In this area too, institutional obstacles could make trade difficult for women, but, invoking