Fabricating Women. The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, Paperback/Clare Haru Crowston

In contrast with scholarship on women and gender in the modern period, the author asserts that the rise of the absolute state, with its centralising and unifying tendencies, could actually increase women's economic, social, and legal opportunities and allow them to thrive in corporate organisations such as the guild. Publisher: Duke University Press Author(s): Clare Haru Crowston Illustration(s): 21 photos, 7 graphs, 7 tables Number of pages: 528 Publication date: 2001 Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 44 Cover type: Paperback / softback