Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities

Abstract

In Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities, Martha C. Howell addresses a problem that has occupied medievalists for the last cen- tury: how to account for women's economic participation and social status at the end of the Middle Ages.Carefully reviewing the work of her predeces- sors, Howell finds no adequate explanation for the process by which women, in great numbers, first entered the labour force and after left it.Demographers have suggested that women entered trades in a period of population imbalance, during which there was a shortage of men.Women left the market when the natural population balance was again restored.

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