The Economic Role of Women in Seventeenth-Century France

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 436 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Role Of Women

scholarly journals Economic Role of Women in Sri Lanka: A Historical Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
A. M. Malani Chandrika
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Role Of Women

scholarly journals WOMEN INVESTORS AND THE VIRGINIA COMPANY IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 853-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
MISHA EWEN
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Sugar Trade ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Investment Portfolios ◽  
Early English

AbstractThis article explores the role of women investors in the Virginia Company during the early seventeenth century, arguing that women determined the success of English overseas expansion by ‘adventuring’ not just their person, but their purse. Trading companies relied on the capital of women, and yet in seminal work on Virginia Company investors women have received no attention at all. This is a significant oversight, as studying the women who invested in trading companies illuminates broader issues regarding the role of women in the early English empire. This article explores why and how two women from merchant backgrounds, Rebecca Romney (d. 1644) and Katherine Hueriblock (d. 1639), managed diverse, global investment portfolios in the period before the Financial Revolution. Through company records, wills, letters, court depositions, and a surviving church memorial tablet, it reconstructs Romney's and Hueriblock's interconnected interests in ‘New World’ ventures, including in Newfoundland, the North-West Passage Company, Virginia colony, and sugar trade. Studying women investors reveals how trade and colonization shaped economic activity and investment practices in the domestic sphere and also elucidates how women, in their role as investors, helped give birth to an English empire.

The Role of Women in Early English Nonconformity

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Greaves
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Early English

The involvement of English women in the radical Protestant movements of the 1640s and 1650s has attracted the attention of a number of modern historians. The hub of such studies is Keith Thomas's provocative 1958 essay, “Women and the Civil War Sects,” which focuses on the expanded role of women in these groups and on the way in which sectarian views indirectly undermined the patriarchal family. More recently, Dorothy Ludlow has studied female preachers in this period, insisting that they were not fanatics but sober women with a distinctive sense of Christian calling who claimed full membership in the Christian community. The more well-known women, such as Anne Hutchinson and Mary Cary, have been the subject of recent studies in their own right. For the period after 1660, Pamela Volkman has examined the contrasting ways in which male and female converts to the sects were depicted, noting that women were more likely to be accused of emotional volatility, immorality, or even insanity than were men. These studies have progressed to the point that we are in no danger of overlooking the role of women in English Nonconformity in the mid-seventeenth century.

Sustaining Faith

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-233
Author(s):  
Katherine Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The West ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
George Fox ◽  
British State

Abstract This article uses the case study of the small Quaker community on seventeenth-century Antigua, as well as sources from Quakers on Barbados and from Quaker missionaries travelling throughout Britain’s Atlantic empire, to question the role of Quakers as anti-slavery pioneers. Quaker founder George Fox used a paternalistic formulation of hierarchy to contend that enslavement of other human beings was compatible with Quakerism, so long as it was done in a nurturing way—an argument that was especially compelling given the sect’s desperate need in the seventeenth century to establish itself economically or risk its destruction by the post-Restoration British State. By exploring the crucial economic role that the slave-based economies of the West Indies played in establishing the Quakers as a powerful sect in the eighteenth-century North American colonies, this article demonstrates that it was impossible for Quakers to follow through in establishing a nurturing form of slavery, particularly within the brutal context of the West Indian sugar colonies.

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
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