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Women and the "Second Serfdom": Evidence from Bohemia

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  • Sheilagh Ogilvie
  • Jeremy Edwards

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Women's ability to conduct independent households is a useful indicator of their economic position. This article investigates female headship in Bohemia (the Czech Republic) under strong feudal and communal institutions. Bohemian female headship was extremely low by Western European standards, declined significantly between1591 and 1722, and was decreasingly affected by socio-economic influences. The article argues that this was linked to the growing power of landlords under the "second serfdom". Not only did landlords dissolve demale-headed households as poor fiscal risks, but this economic rent was manipulated by village communities and other serfs for their own ends.

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  • Sheilagh Ogilvie & Jeremy Edwards, 1998. "Women and the "Second Serfdom": Evidence from Bohemia," CESifo Working Paper Series 177, CESifo.
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    1. Jejeebhoy, Shireen J., 1995. "Women's Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour: Experience from Developing Countries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198290339, Decembrie.
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