TY - JOUR AU - Kienitz, Sabine PY - 1991/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Frauen zwischen Not und Normen: Zur Lebensweise vagierender Frauen um 1800 in Württemberg JF - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften JA - OeZG VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - research paper DO - 10.25365/oezg-1991-2-2-3 UR - https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5345 SP - 34–58 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">Taking the case of a wandering woman who was executed in a small south</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(50.590000%, 50.590000%, 46.670000%);">-</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">western German town in 1817, the author analyses the way of life of non</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(50.590000%, 50.590000%, 46.670000%);">-</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">settled women. This woman was accused of having murdered another wandering woman engaged in money-lending. Her evidence at court provides an insight into the self</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(50.590000%, 50.590000%, 46.670000%);">-</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">understanding and practice of living of wandering women in the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">18</span><span style="font-size: 7.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%); vertical-align: 2.000000pt;">th </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">19</span><span style="font-size: 7.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%); vertical-align: 2.000000pt;">th </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">centuries. Contrary to received opinion, it turns out that their way of life was by no means totally separated from that one of the settled population. On the contrary, there existed a functioning exchange between the settled and non-settled parts of the population</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(50.590000%, 50.590000%, 46.670000%);">. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(37.650000%, 38.430000%, 34.510000%);">As late as the first decades of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(35.290000%, 36.080000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(35.290000%, 36.080000%, 32.160000%);">19</span><span style="font-size: 7.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(35.290000%, 36.080000%, 32.160000%); vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">th </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(35.290000%, 36.080000%, 32.160000%);">century, this exchange was apparently governed by social </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(35.290000%, 36.080000%, 32.160000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(35.290000%, 36.080000%, 32.160000%);">moral rules, by a </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(35.290000%, 36.080000%, 32.160000%);">,moral economy’. </span></p></div></div></div> ER -