Rural women's work and the family economy in Modern Galice

Authors

  • Serrana Rial García

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/arenal.v13i1.2989

Keywords:

Modern Galice, Women, Work, Family, Family economy, Masculine emigration

Abstract

During the Modern Period, the structural characteristics of the Galician agriculture, based in the small rural property sustained with family manpower, and the high integration between reproduction, production and consumption, transformed women into the essential members of the households though, because of the silence of the documental sources, it is not easy to know faithffully their huge and diverse labouring. Besides, the early and intense masculine emigration enlarged the family, social and economic obligations of the women, whose legal situation was not different to that of the rest of the Crown of Castile.

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Published

2006-06-01

How to Cite

Rial García, S. (2006). Rural women’s work and the family economy in Modern Galice. Arenal. Revista De Historia De Las Mujeres, 13(1), 7–37. https://doi.org/10.30827/arenal.v13i1.2989