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A history of their own : women in Europe from prehistory to the present / Bonnie S. Anderson, Judith P. Zinsser.
LIBRA HQ1587 .A53 1988 v.1-2
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HQ1587 .A53 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Bonnie S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Europe--History.
- Women.
- Feminism.
- History.
- Europe.
- Feminism--Europe--History.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1988]
- Summary:
- Women's history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society, organized within a loose chronology with chapters focusing on women's place and function in society. Topics include the roles of female monarchs and women of the court, the application of the new tools of the Scientific Revolution to prove traditional views of women, the salons and parlors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and wealthy women's contributions to the arts and social services, the impact of city-living and the Industrial Revolution on women's roles and family life, and the emergence, evolution, and impact of the modern feminist movement.
- Contents:
- Volume 1. Part I. Traditions inherited : attitudes about women from the centuries before 800 A.D.: Buried traditions : the question of origins
- Inherited traditions : the principal influences
- Traditions subordinating women
- Traditions empowering women
- The effects of Christianity.
- Part II. Women of the fields : sustaining the generations: The constants of the peasant women's world : the Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries
- Sustaining the generations
- The extraordinary
- What remains of the peasant woman's world.
- Part III. Women of the churches : the power of the faithful: The patterns of power and limitation : the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
- Authority within the institutional church
- Authority outside the institutional church
- Authority given and taken away : the protestant and Catholic reformations
- Traditional images redrawn
- The legacy of the protestant reformation.
- Part IV. Women of the castles and manors : custodians of land and lineage: From warrior's wife to noblewoman : the Ninth to the Seventeenth centuries
- Constants of the noblewoman's life
- Power and vulnerability
- The new flowering of ancient traditions.
- Part V. Women of the walled towns : providers and partners: The townswoman's daily life : the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries
- Dangers and remedies
- The world of commercial capitalism : the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
- The invisible and visible bonds of misogyny.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: volume 1, pages [531]-552; volume 2, pages [433]-534.
- Includes indexes.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0060158506
- 0060914521
- 0060158999
- 0060915633
- OCLC:
- 16092091
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