Women in Production: The Economic Role of Women in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho

Signs ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Role Of Women

The Role of Women in the Urban Economy of Istanbul, 1700–1850

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
Role Of Women

This article examines the role of women in manufacturing and the urban economy of Istanbul during the premodern period. It shows that Ottoman women engaged in a variety of economic activities, and invested in the real estate market. They participated in the textile industry of Bursa, Ankara, and Istanbul as weavers, dyers, and embroiderers. Their labor, however, remained marginal to artisanal production through the guilds. Very few women were accepted into the guilds. They were hired by the putting-out merchants to produce secretly at home. Their input to manufacturing increased in the second half of the nineteenth century when the guilds were losing their monopoly over production.

Domestication as Reform: A Study of the Socialization of Wayward Girls, 1856-1905

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Brenzel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Childhood Poverty ◽  
Progressive Reform ◽  
Reform School ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Century Thought

Barbara Brenzel examines nineteenth-century juvenile reform policies by telling the story of Lancaster, a progressive reform school for girls in Massachusetts. Analyzing the efforts of reformers to socialize poor girls, many of whom were immigrants, she describes the contradictory dual purposes underlying these policies—fear and benevolence. The discussion of Lancaster illustrates how particular policies and programs for potentially deviant girls reflected nineteenth-century thought about reform, childhood,poverty, and especially the role of women in society.

‘Lights in Dark Places’: Women Evangelists in Early Victorian Britain, 1838-1857

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 415-427
Author(s):  
Donald M. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Role Of Women

Twenty years ago, Olive Anderson called for more detailed study of how the role of women changed in the nineteenth century, pointing out that only such careful investigations ‘can show how far the conventional stress upon feminism has been well judged’. She noted the contemporary strength of the churches as ‘the great arbiters of public attitudes toward social issues’ and argued that the beliefs and practices of popular religion (‘the religion of the unsophisticated laity in general’) were ‘full of change and diversity’.

“And How Pretty They Are!”: Lawn Tennis, Tourism, and Gender Relations at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1880s-1920s

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422098334
Author(s):  
Robert J. Lake
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Lake Ontario ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
High Class ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
And Gender

In the four decades straddling the turn of the nineteenth century, the small Ontario town of Niagara-on-the-Lake experienced marked growth in its tourism industry. Catering predominantly to wealthy upper-middle-class Canadian and American visitors, the lake-side settlement offered numerous opportunities for polite recreation. Chief among them was lawn tennis, a sport that sat somewhat outside of the mainstream in terms of its high-class, mixed-sex participation demographic. While its players were imbued with a strong amateur philosophy, local boosters recognized the sport’s potential to generate tourism income through its two tournaments, but this hinged on the outward presentation among its players/guests of refined gentility—a reflection of both class and gender—both on and off the court. This article considers how lawn tennis tournaments fit into the town’s burgeoning tourism industry, and examines gender relations—particularly the role of women—in relation to this development.

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