“As long as the absence shall last”: proxy agreements and women’s power in eighteenth-century Quebec City
In pre-industrial societies, the exercise of power within the family was closely linked to the legal context and to patriarchal norms. The role played by women, particularly married women, in the family’s economic activity is often hidden from history. The study of women entitled to act by proxy in...
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2017
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |