Women in European history / Gisela Bock ; translated by Allison Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bock, Gisela

Series:

Making of Europe

The making of Europe

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Women--Europe--History.

Women.

Feminism.

History.

Europe.

Feminism--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

x, 304 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

Women in European History illustrates the social, cultural, legal and, political conditions that European women have faced from the Middle Ages to the present day. It also explores women's ideas and ideals, their perceptions of the relations between the sexes and their struggle for civil, political, and social rights. The book covers the long-standing European debate on gender relations and the roles of the sexes in society, which ultimately also posed the question of what is humanity. The study spans, among other topics, changes in marriage over centuries, women's role in the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, gender relations in the European welfare states, the European dictatorships and Nazi racism and the women's movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book concludes with an account of the emergence of historiography on women over the past two centuries.

Contents:

1 Querelle des femmes: A European Gender Dispute 1

The Dignity of Man and the Dignity of Woman 2

Misogamy and Misogyny; Philogamy and Philogyny 14

The Power of Fathers, the Power of Men, the Power of Women 27

2 The French Revolution: The Dispute is Resumed 32

Hopes 33

Rights of Man and Rights of Woman 41

Amazons and Counter-revolutionaries 55

Napoleon and the Revolution in Europe 62

Nocturnal Intrigues 78

3 Challenging Boundaries: A Third Gender Dispute 82

Changing Debates and Languages 84

No Angels in the House: Ideals and Realities 93

Old and New Labour 99

Pre-Pioneers and Pioneers of the Women's Movement 108

A Social Movement 116

4 From the Social to the Political 127

National and Transnational Movements 128

Equal because Different: The Political Discourse of Suffragism 137

First-comers and Late-comers: European Paths to Women's Suffrage 145

Citizenship and Mothers' Rights 156

Social Policies for and against Women 168

5 Between Extremes 174

Female Citizens and the New Woman 175

Maternity and Paternity in the Welfare State 181

Paths Leading to Dictatorship: The Political and the Private 189

National Socialism and Race Policy 206

War and Genocide in Europe 218

6 Civil, Political and Social Rights: A New Gender Debate 233

Liberty and Equality 235

The Longest Revolution 245

History, Mind and Gender 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [280]-290) and index.

ISBN:

0631191453

0631231919

OCLC:

46811990