TY - BOOK ID - 30915367 TI - Female enterprise behind the discursive veil in nineteenth-century northern France PY - 2017 SN - 1137574135 1137574127 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Women-owned business enterprises. KW - History. KW - France KW - Social history. KW - Economic history. KW - Sociology. KW - Sex (Psychology). KW - Gender expression. KW - Gender identity. KW - History of France. KW - Social History. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Economic History. KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex role KW - Psychology, Sexual KW - Sex KW - Sexual behavior, Psychology of KW - Sexual psychology KW - Sensuality KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - Economics KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - History KW - Sociology KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Psychological aspects KW - Business enterprises KW - Businesswomen KW - France-History. KW - France—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30915367 AB - This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers. Lille and the surrounding towns were then dominated by big and small family businesses, and many were run by women. Those women did not withdraw into the parlour as the century progressed and the ‘separate ideology’ spread. Neither did they become mere figure heads - most were business persons in their own rights. Yet, they have left almost no traces in the collective memory, and historians assume they ceased to exist. This book therefore seeks to answer three interrelated questions: How common were those women, and what kind of business did they run? What factors facilitated or impeded their activities? And finally, why have they been forgotten, and why has their representations in regional and academic history been so at odd with reality? Indirectly, this study also sheds light on the process of industrialization in this region, and on industrialists’ strategies. ER -