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"Silent Partners restores women to their part in the story of Englands Financial Revolution. Women were active participants in Londons first stock market beginning in the 1690s and on through the eighteenth century. Whether playing the State lottery, investing in government funds for retirement, or speculating in company stocks, women regularly comprised between a fifth and a third of public investors. These female investors ranged from London servants to middling tradeswomen, on up to provincial gentlewomen and peeresses of the realm. There was, however, no single female investor type, rather some women ran risks and speculated in stocks while others sought out low risk, low return options for their retirement years. Not only did women invest for themselves, their financial knowledge and ability meant that family members often relied on wives, sisters, and aunts to act as their investing agents. Moreover, female creditors not only benefited themselves and their families, they also aided the nation. Womens capital was a critical component of Britains rise to economic, military, and colonial dominance in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the period between 1690 and 1750, and utilizing womens account books and financial correspondence, as well as the records of joint-stock companies, the Bank of England, and the Exchequer, Silent Partners provides the first comprehensive overview of the significant role women played in the birth of financial capitalism in Britain."

"Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival material across a wide range of historical documents, including sermons, prophecies, letters and diaries, Orianne Smith explores the work of prominent women writers - from Hester Piozzi to Ann Radcliffe, from Helen Maria Williams to Anna Barbauld and Mary Shelley - through the lens of their prophetic influence. As this book demonstrates, Romantic women writers not only thought in millenarian terms, but they did so in a way that significantly alters our current critical view of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period"

"Rindfuss' study of the demographically dense' period amongAmerican youth is applied in the Indonesian situation. The researchanalyses data sets of :lie 1971, 1980 and 1990 Indonesian PopulationCensus and the 1997 National Social and Economic Survey. focusing onwomen aged 15-24 years. Two hypotheses are examined for rite changesbetween 1980 cmd 1997: (1) more women remained single and were likelyto continue education or join the labor force. and (2) pursuing educationwas more dominant than pursuing employment. Two-thirds of women aged15-24 remained unmarried in 1997. From 1971 to 1997. marriage andattending school were becoming alternately exclusive, especially below age20. Between 1980 and 1997, :lie percentage of those 'working' as mainactivity dropped slightly, but attending school almost doubled. Anothermeasure, the percentage of women who worked at least one hour in :lieprevious week increased as women became older, but in overall it declinedwithin the 17-year period. Less-educated single women were more likely towork. Mothers with young children tended to stay out of the work force.especially or ages 15-19. Single women had higher unemployment rates:nan ever-married women. Policy implications include improvements inschooling and working conditions along will: delaying first marriage."