Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
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Manzanares Mileo, Marta https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2502-2794
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThis article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and tradeswomen who engaged with the production and trade of sweets in ingenious ways. This article argues that in the period when women were culturally diminished through their portrayals as ‘sweet’ and barred by guild structures, many women exercised social and economic agency in the confectionery trade in Barcelona.</jats:p>
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4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
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Gender & History
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0953-5233
1468-0424
1468-0424
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Wiley
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European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (891543)