Description |
xvii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : Restoring women to history / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- Part I. Women in the age of religious upheaval and political centralization -- Overview, 1500-1750 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert -- Family and state in early modern France : the marriage pact / Sarah Hanley -- Women's work in the changing city economy, 1500-1650 / Merry E. Wiesner -- Communities of women, the religious life, and public service in eighteenth-century France / Olwen Hufton and Frank Tallett -- The "science" of embryology before the discovery of the ovum / Maryanne Cline Horowitz -- Part II. Women in industrializing and liberalizing Europe -- Overview, 1750-1890 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- The influence of Rousseau's ideology of domesticity / Barbara Corrado Pope -- "...with the wolf always at the door..." : women's work in domestic industry in Britain and Germany / Barbara Franzoi -- The tiresome work of conspicuous leisure. On the domestic duties of the wives of civil servants in the German empire (1871-1918) / Sibylle Meyer, translated by Lyndel Butler -- In the shadows of the periphery : Italian women in the nineteenth century / Donna Gabaccia -- Feminism, antifeminism, and national family politics in early Third Republic France / Karen Offen -- Part III. Women in the era of the interventionist state -- Overview, 1890 to the present / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- Prostitution, differentiation, and the world economy : Nairobi, 1899-1939 / Luise White -- Soldier's heart : literary men, literary women, and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert -- The Russian Revolution and women / Richard Stites -- "I am somebody!" : women's changing sense of self in the German Democratic Republic / Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke. |
Subject |
Women -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- United States -- History.
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Women -- Europe -- History.
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Feminism -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Indexed Term |
Western world Society Role of women, 1500-1986 |
Added Author |
Boxer, Marilyn J.
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Quataert, Jean H. (Jean Helen), 1945-
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ISBN |
0195041232 |
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019504133X paperback |
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