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Record Number:
8448
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Karras , Ruth Mazo.
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Title:
“This Skill in a Woman is By No Means to Be Despised”: Weaving and the Gender Division of Labor in the Middle Ages [Throughout the Middle Ages, cloth production was a respectable and even prestigious occupation for women. Women’s work was often devalued in comparison to that of men, but cloth production had great cultural importance. While women involved in other professions (like brewsters) came to be perceived negatively as their participation in urban and commercial life increased, the respectability of women weavers endured. Men eventually assumed control over the commercial production and trade of cloth in the later Middle Ages, yet the idea of women’s weaving remained an important concept in literary texts and in society as a whole. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Edited by E. Jane Burns. Palgrave, 2004. Pages 89 - 104.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
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:
Economics
Guilds
Sexual Division of Labor
Spinning
Textiles- Production
Weaving
Women's Status
Women's Workshops
Work in Art
Work in Literature
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General
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2004.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
1403961867