Gendering European history, 1780-1920 / Barbara Caine and Glenda Sluga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caine, Barbara.

Contributor:

Sluga, Glenda, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Europe--History.

Women.

Sex role--Political aspects.

History.

Europe.

Sex role--Europe--History.

Sex role.

Sex role--Political aspects--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Gendering European History covers the period from the French Revolution to the end of the First World War. Organized both chronologically and thematically, its central theme is the issue of gender and citizenship. The book encompasses the late-eighteenth-century revolutionary period, nineteenth-century developments concerning work, urban and domestic life, national politics, gender in the fin de siecle and imperialism, and concludes with the gender crisis of the First World War. Caine and Sluga explore the question of sexual difference in relation to class, ethnicity and race, and the development of key historical debates about identity, work, home, politics, and citizenship in specific national contexts and across Europe. At the same time, they provide readers new to European history with general information about the social and political contexts in which those debates arose.

Intended both as an introductory work for tertiary students and one that offers new interpretations and discussions for scholars in the field, this study is a synthesis, bringing together the extensive but often fragmented existing literature on gender in European history. It also raises new questions and introduces new sources, particularly in relation to the history of gender and nation-building. The result is a challenging view of the contours of European history in the period from the Enlightenment to the 1920s.

Contents:

1 Citizenship and Difference: The Age of Revolution 7

2 Spaces and Places: Changing Patterns of Domesticity and Work 32

3 Gendering Politics and the Political 55

4 Sex and Race, Nations and Empires 87

5 The Fin-de-siecle 117

6 War and the New World Order 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0718501314

0718501322

OCLC:

41211534