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| Named Person: | Aphra Behn; Daniel Defoe |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Elisabeth Connor |
| ISBN: | 041517046X 9780415170468 9780203646038 0203646037 |
| OCLC Number: | 53223746 |
| Description: | viii, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Diary of a not-so-mad housewife -- The consumer ethic--or ethical consumption -- Accounting for women -- Money as metaphor--and mind your own business -- The power of portability -- Accounting for accounting -- Accounting for texts -- From fiction to finance to faction -- The me generation: memorandum, memory, memoir -- Just what the doctor ordered -- A no-good account -- Accounts personified -- Ladies do the math -- Widow-take-all -- Accentuate the masculine/eliminate the feminine -- The mathematics of morality -- Woman as micromanager -- The perils of lady in the dark -- Jack and The Fair Jilt: the value of Aphra Behn -- Demise of a specie -- The bent of Behn -- In for a pistole, in for a pound -- All's fair/fair is all -- A fair exchange -- Coin of the realms -- Giving The Fair Jilt a fair shake -- Birds of a different feather: going toe-to-toe with Defoe -- Jailbirds, but not together -- The root of the root of all evil -- The flip side of clipping -- Social accounting: reading and writing arithmetick -- You're nobody till somebody owes you -- Now you see it/now you don't -- You are what you count -- Of haggling and the body prix fixe -- Delivery a la carte -- Moll of America -- Friends of Flanders -- The calico caper -- Going broke and breaking back -- Deconstructing Defoe -- He said/she said: from the picaresque to the pointedly personal -- Pick a peck of picaresques -- Land of the free(holders) -- She's got personality -- And she's got funds -- She's got good and plenty -- And she's got it all. |
| Series Title: | Routledge research in gender and history, 6. |
| Responsibility: | Rebecca Elisabeth Connor. |
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- Women accountants -- England -- History -- 18th century.
- Bookkeeping -- England -- History -- 18th century.
- Women -- England -- History -- 18th century.
- Behn, Aphra, -- 1640-1689. -- Fair jilt.
- Defoe, Daniel, -- 1661?-1731. -- Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders.
- Vrouwen.
- Boekhouden.
- Romans.

