| Description |
xxi, 258 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Part One : Women and Work : I. Varieties of occupations for working-class women : "Working in the fields is not such hard work as working in the factory" (England, 1843) -- A Temporary shelter for unemployed women (France, c. 1890) -- "A Shop girl's day in a clothing store" (France, 1897) -- A Woman Doctor's report on working conditions for women in Russian factories (Russia, 1914) / Dr. M.I. Pokzovskaia -- II. Attempts to improve working conditions and organize women workers : Women workers strike (Austria, 1893) / Amalie Seidl -- "The charter of reforms" of the women's co-operative guild (England, 1897) -- Organizing a women's union / Italy, 1903. |
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III. Promoting the employment of women : Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (England, 1859-1877) -- Program and statutes of the women's educational association in Leipzig (Germany, 1866) -- Opening the German civil service to women (Germany, 1878) -- Women to women : handbooks for choosing an occupation (France, 1891; England, 1897) -- A School of social work for women (Germany, 1905) / Paula Mueller -- IV. The Meaning of work for women : "Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all" (England, 1859) / Anna Jameson -- "What is work?" (Germany, 1866) / Jenny Heynrichs -- The Meaning of work for the working-class woman (Germany, 1930). |
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Part Two : Women's Politics : V. Middle-class women's politics: social reform, suffrage, and the first feminist movement : "Declaration of the rights of woman and citizen" (France, 1790) / Olympe de Gouges -- "Why I am a guardian" (England, 1888) / Dora Downright -- "The Prisoner" (England, 1911) / Helen Gordon Liddle -- The Making of a militant (England, 1912) / Emmeline Pankhurst -- "The Question of the vote for women" (France, 1913) / The French Union for Women's Suffrage -- "Call to the women of all nations" (Holland, 1915) -- "Restatement of policy after 25 years" (Germany, 1929) / International Alliance of Women. |
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VI. Working-class women and socialism : A Socialist platform for the protection of women workers / Louise Kautsky [Austria], International Socialist Workers' Congress, Zurich, 1893 -- Becoming a socialist (Austria, 1890s) -- Women and socialism in the Soviet Union: an "official" view (U.S.S.R., 1934) / Fanni Nurina -- VII. Women and Nazism : Nazi women (Germany, 1933) -- Women against the Nazis (Germany, 1930s). |
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Part Three : VIII. Women and the Family in Modern Society : Childhood : Home education for girls (France, 1867) / Loiuse D'Aulnay, -- Combating child abuse (France, 1880s) / Pauline Kergomard, French Association for Child Rescue -- A Working-class childhood (Austria, 1880s) / Adelhied Popp -- IX. Single Women : "Our social life has changed" : young women in the Victorian period (England, 1820 and 1889) -- "Small-clean- alone" : the joys of living alone (Germany, 1881) / Louise Otto -- A Rural woman : childhood, working as a domestic in Paris, keeping her illegitimate child, memoirs (France, 1886-1920) / Julliette Sauget. |
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X. Married women : The Middle-class housewife and the problem of troublesome domestics (England, 1860) -- The Good housewife (Switzerland, 1895) -- Advice to mothers on the feeding of children (England, 1897) -- Triple Toil : the life of the working wife and mother (Germany, 1930) -- XI. Changing attitudes toward marriage and motherhood : A Dissatisfied mother (Austria, 1899) -- The Manipulation of motherhood (Germany, 1907) -- The Renaissance of motherhood (Sweden, 1914) / Ellen Key -- Communism and the family (U.S.S.R., 1918) / Alexandra Kollontai. |
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Part Four : Woman and Her Body : XII. Health, nutrition, pregnancy : The Importance of physical education for girls (England, 1859) -- A Sex education guide for mother and daughter (Belgium, 1905) -- Maternity (England, 1915) -- Letter from pregnant working women (Germany, 1923) -- XIII. Contraception and abortion : Survey of abortion and birth control methods (Germany, 1913) -- "Letters from struggling parents" (England, 1919 and 1920) -- Widening the scope of human freedom and choice (England, 1922) / F.W. Stella Browne -- The First birth control clinic (Holland, 1928) / Aletta Jacobs -- "I object": Soviet citizens on abortion (U.S.S.R., 1936) -- XIV. Sexuality and sexual self-definition : "Men will have their victims" (England, 1871) / Josephine Butler -- Challenges to Victorian morality : selections from The Adult (England, 1897-1898) -- "The Truth about myself" : Autobiography of a Lesbian (Germany, 1901). |
| Subject |
Women -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
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Women -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Women -- Employment -- Europe -- History -- Sources.
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Women -- Political activity -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
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Women -- Political activity -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women -- Employment.
(OCoLC)fst01176715
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Women -- Political activity.
(OCoLC)fst01734136
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
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Frau.
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| Chronological Term |
Sozialgeschichte 1789-1945.
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1800-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Riemer, Eleanor S.
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Fout, John C., 1937-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: European women. New York : Schocken Books, 1980 (OCoLC)646989385 |
| ISBN |
0805206442 |
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9780805206449 |
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0805237372 |
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9780805237375 |
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0305237372 |
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