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Women, accounting, and narrative : keeping books in eighteenth-century England

Author: Rebecca Elisabeth Connor
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series: Routledge research in gender and history, 6.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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