Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society

Making a Living, Making a Difference offers an eye-opening perspective on what men and women in early modern European society did all day. Based on an innovative method and a large data collection of everyday activities, the authors show the ways in which gender and work were linked in early modern society by revealing household, unpaid, and hidden, as well as paid, labor.

Maria Ågren is Professor of History at Uppsala University and author of Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857, among other titles. She is involved in various aspects of the digital humanities.