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When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families—married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained single throughout their lives.Despite the significant number of never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been largely neglected. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation. It is not only the first book to highlight the important minority of women who never married but also the first to address the critical matter of differences among women from the perspective of marital status.Essays by leading scholars—among them Maryanne Kowaleski, Margaret Hunt, Ruth Mazo Karras, Susan Mosher Stuard, Roberta Krueger, and Merry Wiesner—deal with topics including the sexual and emotional relationships of singlewomen, the economic issues and employment opportunities facing them, the differences between the lives of widows and singlewomen, the conflation of singlewomen and prostitutes, and the problem of female slavery. The chapters both illustrate the roles open to the singlewoman in the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries and raise new perspectives about the experiences of singlewomen in earlier times.

Single women --- History of Europe --- anno 1200-1799 --- Marie de France --- Sex role --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Europe --- History --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Spinsters --- Unmarried women --- Single people --- Women --- Homosexuality --- Singles --- Female homosexuality --- Labour --- Sexuality --- Slavery --- Images of women --- Widows --- Book --- Demography

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African American young women --- Single women --- Urban women --- Sex customs --- Prostitution --- Social conditions --- Sexual behavior&delete& --- History --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- City dwellers --- Women --- Young women, African American --- Young women --- Spinsters --- Unmarried women --- Single people --- Sexual behavior --- Sociology of minorities --- anno 1900-1999 --- Sex work --- Black feminism --- Book --- feminism --- African American