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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women's businesses - from small local concerns to financial empires - offered women independence, supported their families, and supplied essential goods and services to their communities and the world. They also contributed to much-needed legal and social change and set the stage for the female entrepreneurs who would come later. All this was accomplished despite immense financial barriers, an inequitable legal system, and the widely held belief that women had no business in business. Women's Concerns explores the lives of twelve women who owned and operated businesses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It focuses on the ways they created personal and public identities and managed the contradictions between their entrepreneurial ambitions and deeply entrenched attitudes about women's roles.Product Identifiers
PublisherPeter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-139781433104237
eBay Product ID (ePID)115920021
Product Key Features
Number of Pages227 Pages
Publication NameWomen's Concerns: Twelve Women Entrepreneurs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomics, Zoology, History, Business
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Work
AuthorJill Jepson
Dimensions
Item Height230 mm
Item Weight560 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJill Jepson
Series TitleAmerican University Studies