Gender and the guild order: The garment trades in eighteenth-century France.

Analyzes the changing relations between the major men's and women's guilds in the Paris, France clothing trades, the norms that governed those relations and the socio-economic forces that reshaped them in 18th-century. Tailors; Linen drapers; Seamstresses; Clandestine production; Corporate order; Debates about women's labor.