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Based on a solid foundation of archival research that ranges from tax rolls to notarial records, this study adds an important chapter to our understanding of women in pre-industrial Europe. Through a rigorous examination of primary documents peculiar to eighteenth-century Brittany, the author demonstrates the difficulties engendered in broad generalities about European women, and makes a strong case for the necessity for historians to account for regional differences in women's experiences.

Women --- Work and family --- Femmes --- Travail et famille --- History --- Social conditions --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Brittany (France) --- Bretagne (France) --- Social conditions. --- Women. --- Work and family. --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Frauenarbeit. --- Social history. --- 1700-1799. --- Bretagne. --- France