Pervivencias - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:18:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Pervivencias - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Evolution of female leadership in the town of Albacete, 1787-1880 https://historylab.es/evolution-of-female-leadership-in-the-town-of-albacete-1787-1880/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evolution-of-female-leadership-in-the-town-of-albacete-1787-1880 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:27 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-de-la-jefatura-femenina-en-la-villa-de-albacete-1787-1880/ Loneliness had a woman's name. Evolution that shows the survival of customs between the Ancien Régime and liberalism.

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]]> The evolution in the city of Albacete of the marital status of the female head of household remained almost unchanged between 1787 and 1880. This structural stability reveals how family models and social customs were perpetuated after the transition from the Ancien Régime to the liberal political society. Female heads of household remained between 17% and 19% of the total number of families, with widows accounting for 82.3% of the female cases. The data show that family loneliness had a woman’s name; the condition of widows emancipated them from male guardianship.

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