The Woman in the Galician Provinces in the Light of Notarial Records (1871-1914)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of important abbreviations used in the text
Introduction

PART I
IN THE PROVINCIAL COMMUNITY AND PRIVATE LIFE
The provinces on the path to modernisation
1. Socio-economic changes
2. The issue of women
The woman: a creator of sources?
The woman in the family
1. Notarial records as a source for family research
2. The daughter and the bride (childhood, dowry, inheritance)
The role of the daughter in the family
Dowry relations
Daughters in succession
3. Mothers, grandmothers, mothers-in-law
The wife and her living space
1. Husband’s entitlements
2. The material basis of marriage
3. Highs and lows
Single women
Material culture and other aspects of social life

PART II
THE WOMAN IN THE ECONOMIC LIFE
Notarial records as a source for research on economic life
Traditional forms of women’s participation in the economic life of the provinces
1. Real estate and capital trading – general remarks
2. Women’s participation in trading in real estate
3. Women’s participation in capital trading
Forms of capital trading
Private loans
Institutional credit
Trading in bills of exchange and receivables
Work as a form of economic activity
1. Women’s occupational activation in the 19th century
2. Women and the occupational structure of Galicia
3. Work and professional identity
Business activities
Conclusion
References
List of tables and charts
Geographical and personal index