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Question 59

Select all that apply. Which statements about the work of peasant women are correct?

  1. They worked in the fields as well as in and around the house.Bonne réponse
  2. They looked after animals and garden plots.Bonne réponse
  3. They brewed ale and helped to bring in the harvest.Bonne réponse
  4. They never left the house and did no farm work at all.

Explication

A peasant household was a working partnership, and the tasks that fell to women ran from the yard and the garden out to the harvest field, where every pair of hands was needed in the same few weeks. The picture of women confined indoors is the closest trap, because household work was indeed their responsibility, yet it sat alongside field and animal work rather than taking its place.

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