Connecting spheres : women in the Western world, 1500 to the present /

Connecting spheres : women in the Western world, 1500 to the present /

Integrating the discoveries of the new feminist scholarship with the main themes of Western civilization, this volume puts women back into history. From Italy to Kenya, from Britain to Russia, the text examines the impact of religious reformation, political centralization, scientific, industrial, an...

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Other Authors: Boxer, Marilyn J. (Editor), Quataert, Jean H. (Jean Helen), 1945- (Editor), Scott, Joan Wallach (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Subjects:
Women > History > Cross-cultural studies.
Women > United States > History.
Women > Europe > History.
Feminism > History > Cross-cultural studies.
Femmes > Histoire > Études transculturelles.
Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes > Europe > Histoire.
Féminisme > Histoire > Études transculturelles.
Feminism
Women
Frau
Aufsatzsammlung
Vrouwen.
Nieuwe tijd.
Women's studies.
Feminism > History.
Féminisme > Histoire.
Geschichte (1500-1980)
Europe
United States
Western world > Society > Role of women, 1500-1986
Aufsatzsammlung.
Cross-cultural studies
History
Table of 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.

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