Louder Than Words : Ways of Seeing Women Workers in Eighteenth-century France

"Because eighteenth-century French trade law and corporate archives rarely mention women workers, Sheridan analyzes nearly two hundred period engravings to interpret women's roles in pre-industrial France. Images primarily from Diderot's Encyclopâedie and Panckouke's 1777 supplementary volume document women as workers, finishers, and managers in ma