Nancy Locklin
Ashgate
Hardback
170
2007
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.