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Cover of Women and their Money 1700–1950

Women and their Money 1700–1950 Essays on women and finance

  • Published: 20 Nov 2008
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203885994
  • Print ISBN: 9780415419765
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203885994

This book examines women's financial activity from the early days of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how many women managed their own finances despite legal and social restrictions and show that women were neither helpless, incompetent and risk-averse, nor were they unduly cautious and conservative. Rather, many women learnt about money and made themselves effective and engaged managers of the funds at their disposal.

The essays focus on Britain, from eighteenth-century London, to the expansion of British financial markets of the nineteenth century, with comparative essays dealing with the US, Italy, Sweden and Japan. Hitherto, writing about women and money has been restricted to their management of household finances or their activities as small business women. This book examines the clear evidence of women's active engagement in financial matters, much neglected in historical literature, especially women's management of capital.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Anne Laurence; Josephine Maltby; Janette Rutterford
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    Women and finance in eighteenth-century England By Anne Laurence
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    Women in the city: Financial acumen during the South Sea Bubble By Ann M. Carlos; Karen Maguire; Larry Neal
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    Women, banks and the securities market in early eighteenth-century England By Anne Laurence
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    Women investors and financial knowledge in eighteenth-century Germany By Eve Rosenhaft
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    Accounting for business: Financial management in the eighteenth century 1 By Christine Wiskin
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    Women and wealth: The nineteenth century in Great Britain By Lucy A. Newton; Philip L. Cottrell; Josephine Maltby; Janette Rutterford
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    Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies By Mark Freeman; Robin Pearson; James Taylor
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    Female investors in the first English and Welsh commercial joint-stock banks By Lucy A. Newton; Philip L. Cottrell
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    To do the right thing: Gender, wealth, inheritance and the London middle class 1 By David R. Green
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    Women and wealth in fiction in the long nineteenth century 1800–1914 By Janette Rutterford; Josephine Maltby
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    Octavia Hill: Property manager and accountant 1 By Stephen P. Walker
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    Female investors within the Scottish investment trust movement in the 1870s By Claire Swan
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    Women clerical staff employed in the UK-based Army Pay Department establishments, 1914–1920 By John Black
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    Women and money: The United States By Nancy Marie Robertson; Susan M. Yohn
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    ‘Men seem to take delight in cheating women’: Legal challenges faced by businesswomen in the United States, 1880–1920 By Susan M. Yohn
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    ‘The principles of sound banking and financial noblesse oblige’: Women’s departments in US banks at the turn of the twentieth century By Nancy Marie Robertson
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    Women, money and the financial revolution: A gender perspective on the development of the Swedish financial system, c.1860–1920 1 By Tom Petersson
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    Women’s wealth and finance in nineteenth-century Milan By Stefania Licini
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    The transformation from ‘thrifty accountant’ to ‘independent investor’?: The changing relationship of Japanese women and finance under the influence of globalization 1 By Naoko Komori
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    Back Matter