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Record Number:
9765
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Rees Jones , Sarah.
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Title:
Women's Influence on the Design of Urban Homes [The author argues that home ownership was more important to women than to men. Houses provided security, status, and a means for earning income. The physical environment of the home shaped the bourgeois ideal of female domesticity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski. Cornell University Press, 2003. Pages 190 - 211.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Architecture- Secular
Cities and Towns
Domestic Space
Economics
Gender
Property
Rental Housing
Social History
Work
York, North Yorkshire, England
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14- 15
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Table:
One Table. Table One Statistics on rental properties from the estate of the Vicars Choral in York, 1309-1472. Includes rent income, cost of repairs, and percentage of male and female tenants along with the percentage each group paid in rent and received in repairs.
Abstract:
Author's Affiliation:
University of York
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2003.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0801441129
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