Part I Perspective on the History of Women and Family in Japanese Economic Development -- 1 The Labour Market and …This book is the 6th volume of the Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The book focuses on … how economic developments changed the everyday lives of ordinary women in early-modern and modern Japan. Different from …

Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished women to invest in informal sector economic … development tool used to empower women in low- and middle-income countries. Women and Microfinance in the Global South … between microfinance and women's empowerment, questioning how microfinance facilitates the economic and socio …

-Century Mexico City -- 3. Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’ -- 4. A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship …: Entrepreneurial Women among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 9. The Business of Self-Endowment: Women Merchants … Entrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States Cities -- 11. Japanese Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Kyoto Businesses in …

with methodological and historiographical issues in reconstructing women’s contribution to history. Elena Laurenzi is …1.The Political Philanthropy of the Female Elites -- Part I: A Women’s Network in Early 20th Century Italy -- 2.Harriet …: Methodological and Historiographical Considerations -- 8.The Signs of Art -- 9.Female Biographies and Family History. An Approach to …