Daryl M. Hafter is Professor Emerita of History at Eastern Michigan University. She is the editor of European Women and Preindustrial Craft (1995).

“This is the first full-length study of women in all-female and mixed guilds in Old Regime France.  . . . Hafter contributes a great deal to our understanding of gender and the gendering of work, of the function of women’s work in patriarchal society, of the agency women held in early modern France to control their work, of the ways this control brought women into the public sphere of the old regime, and of the ways ideas about gender and work changed over the eighteenth century and into the Revolution.”—Clare H. Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.The Political Economy of Guilds2.The Uses of Gender in Economic Life3.Guildwomen and Ouvrières4.Turgot’s Reforms and Their Aftermath5.Paths to the RevolutionConclusionBibliographyIndex

Daryl M. Hafter is Professor Emerita of History at Eastern Michigan University. She is the editor of European Women and Preindustrial Craft (1995).

“This is the first full-length study of women in all-female and mixed guilds in Old Regime France.  . . . Hafter contributes a great deal to our understanding of gender and the gendering of work, of the function of women’s work in patriarchal society, of the agency women held in early modern France to control their work, of the ways this control brought women into the public sphere of the old regime, and of the ways ideas about gender and work changed over the eighteenth century and into the Revolution.”—Clare H. Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.The Political Economy of Guilds2.The Uses of Gender in Economic Life3.Guildwomen and Ouvrières4.Turgot’s Reforms and Their Aftermath5.Paths to the RevolutionConclusionBibliographyIndex

Daryl M. Hafter is Professor Emerita of History at Eastern Michigan University. She is the editor of European Women and Preindustrial Craft (1995).

“This is the first full-length study of women in all-female and mixed guilds in Old Regime France.  . . . Hafter contributes a great deal to our understanding of gender and the gendering of work, of the function of women’s work in patriarchal society, of the agency women held in early modern France to control their work, of the ways this control brought women into the public sphere of the old regime, and of the ways ideas about gender and work changed over the eighteenth century and into the Revolution.”—Clare H. Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.The Political Economy of Guilds2.The Uses of Gender in Economic Life3.Guildwomen and Ouvrières4.Turgot’s Reforms and Their Aftermath5.Paths to the RevolutionConclusionBibliographyIndex