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In: International review of social history, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 197-200
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: Early modern women: EMW ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 409-412
ISSN: 2378-4776
In: Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 285-287
ISSN: 1469-218X
In: Journal of family history: studies in family, kinship and demography, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 121-124
ISSN: 1552-5473
In: Labor: studies in working-class history of the Americas, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 123-125
ISSN: 1558-1454
In: Early modern women: EMW ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 179-184
ISSN: 2378-4776
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 465-471
ISSN: 1527-8034
In: Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Band 26, S. 36-42
ISSN: 2154-4042
When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families--married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained single throughout their lives. Despite the significant number of never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been largely neglected. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation. It is not only the first book to highlight the important minority of women who never married but also the first to address the critical matter of differences among women from the perspective of marital status. Essays by leading scholars--among them Maryanne Kowaleski, Margaret Hunt, Ruth Mazo Karras, Susan Mosher Stuard, Roberta Krueger, and Merry Wiesner--deal with topics including the sexual and emotional relationships of singlewomen, the economic issues and employment opportunities facing them, the differences between the lives of widows and singlewomen, the conflation of singlewomen and prostitutes, and the problem of female slavery. The chapters both illustrate the roles open to the singlewoman in the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries and raise new perspectives about the experiences of singlewomen in earlier times