Book Review

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This paper reviews how Hill's book makes an extremely useful contribution to feminist historiography. It claims that the book transcends the relatively narrow sphere of feminist historiography and achieves its author's stated, ambitious objective of bringing together women's history and eighteenth-century social history, which prior to the writing of this book had become increasingly separate. The author of the paper offers a personal opinion and contends that the book is extremely comprehensive and succeeds in making a thorough reassessment of how women experienced work in eighteenth-century England.

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""Women, Work & Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England" by Bridget Hill is a book that makes an extremely useful contribution to feminist historiography. More than that, it transcends the relatively narrow sphere of feminist historiography and achieves its author's stated, ambitious objective of bringing together women's history and eighteenth-century social history, which prior to the writing of this book had become increasingly separate. The book is extremely comprehensive, and succeeds in making a thorough reassessment of how women experienced work in eighteenth-century England. This was of ..."

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