| Popis: |
The debate on women’s economic contribution to agricultural labor in southern Europe is largely excluded from the research area of feminist historians as in most of the work discussed in the field female economic agency mainly in urban areas focused on business elite heiresses. Additionally, the main bulk of the bibliography that discusses women’s lives and their economic contribution to family finances is staged in western, northern, and central Europe. As a result, the theme of rural women’s multifarious tasks in southern Europe and more precisely in regions of Greece, as well as in Italy and in parts of France, remains under researched. Female labor in agriculture was necessary as families received economic support from women’s earnings despite the fact that they were underpaid compared to men. |
