ABSTRACT
Economic history has, for most of its life, been conducted primarily by men preoccupied with the male world of market work and production in the public arena. Today, a growing interest in women’s history and family history is generating new and exciting research, but much of it remains confined to its own, private sphere. The very concept of ‘family history’ implies that the history of a particular site of relations, the family, can be told in isolation from the economy as a whole.
