Going to Market by David Pennington - 9781032927596

Going to MarketWomen, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650\nAuthor(s): David Pennington\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032927596, 978-1032927596\nSynopsis\nGoing to Market rethinks womens contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to womens everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that they could take advantage of new commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree of economic agency. This has implications for early modern gender relations and commercial culture alike. For the evidence analyzed here suggests that male householders and town authorities alike accepted the necessity of womens participation in the commercial economy, and that womens asserti.