The Early Modern Housewife: A Positive Stereotype of the Working

Stereotypes and Stereotyping in the Early...

The Early Modern Housewife: A Positive Stereotype of the Working Woman?

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Jane Whittle, professor of economic and social history at the University of Exeter, presents on how early stereotyping of housewives affected positive perspectives of affluent women in the early modern era.

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