Review of Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

Abstract

This volume, edited by Beatrice Moring, focuses on the economic activities of women without husbands, with an emphasis on impoverished women. The geographic and temporal scope of the chapters is broad, spanning Europe and Latin America and ranging from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries. While the papers are diverse, they share some common features. The volume takes a comparative view of women's economic activities, while highlighting responses to hardship, such as the loss of a spouse. The papers address the challenges presented by the study of women's economic behavior using historical records, such as the incomplete recording of occupational information. In doing so, they make use of a variety of source material including household budgets, censuses of the poor, and time-use surveys.

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