Working Women of Early Modern Venice. By Monica Chojnacka. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 188. $32.50.
本书强调早期现代威尼斯非精英女性在经济和慈善机构支持下获得的独立性、社交和能动性，与贵族女性的受限生活形成对比。
In this carefully researched book, Monica Chojnacka stresses the independence of working women in early modern Venice. Accepting the premise that, in general, the wives, sisters, and daughters of the nobility led highly restricted lives throughout this period, she argues that both economic forces and the formation of new charitable institutions benefited popolane (non-elite women) by providing them with forms of sociability, community, and agency that were denied their social superiors.