TY - BOOK ID - 1639885 TI - Gender and poverty in nineteenth-century Europe. PY - 2005 SN - 9780521621021 052162102X 9780521629263 0521629268 PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - History of Europe KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Poor KW - Poor women KW - Pauvres KW - Femmes pauvres KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Europe KW - Social conditions KW - Conditions sociales KW - Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek KW - Economic conditions KW - Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek. KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Poverty KW - Feminization of poverty KW - Women, Poor KW - Women KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1639885 AB - This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the law. Within a climate of calamities, the poor relied on their own resourcefulness and community connections where the boundaries between the private and public were indistinguishable, and on a system of exchange and reciprocity to help them fashion their culture of expediencies. This accessible synthesis introduces readers to conflicting interpretations of major historic developments and evaluates those interpretations. It will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history. ER -