Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415055318
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1134419066
This landmark publication collects the essays of the leading women's historians and provides the most coherent overview of women's role and place in Western Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
Author : Bonnie S. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195128390
Organization of the book focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society rather than placing women in historical chronology. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism.
Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316195503
During the eighteenth century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that resulted in the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualisation of marriage, and the emergence of modern, democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, and their engagement with the works of political thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville and Rousseau. Her exploration ranges across Europe from England through France, Italy, Germany and Russia, and discusses thinkers including Mary Astell, Emilie Du Châtelet, Luise Kulmus-Gottsched and Elisabetta Caminer Turra. This study demonstrates the depth of women's contributions to eighteenth-century political debates, recovering their historical significance and deepening our understanding of this period in intellectual history. It will provide an essential resource for readers in political philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and women's studies.
Author : Renate Bridenthal
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780395796252
Thematic emphases in this text include the contacts between European women and those outside European frontiers, sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries, and the role of women in the great events and movements in European history and the impact of such events on them.
Author : Rachel Fuchs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2004-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1350307351
During the nineteenth century, European women of all countries and social classes experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. However, the history of women at this time is not one of unmitigated progress - theirs was an uphill struggle, fraught with hindrances, hard work and economic downturns, and the increasing intrusion of the public into their innermost private and personal lives. Breaking away from traditional categories, Rachel G. Fuchs and Victoria E. Thompson provide a sense of the variety and complexity of women's lives across national and regional boundaries, juxtaposing the experiences of women with the perceptions of their lives. Three themes unite this study: - The tension between tradition and modernity - The changing relationship between the community and individual - The shifting boundaries between public and private Dealing with individual women's lives within a large social and cultural context, Fuchs and Thompson demonstrate how strong and courageous women refused to live within the prescribed domestic roles - and how many became the modern women of the twentieth century.
Author : Lisa DiCaprio
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN :
"Anthologizes primary source materials about women's lives and presents an overview of the variety of women's experiences dating from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary Bosnia ... [including] Plato, Christine de Pizan, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Virginia Woolf, as well as sources that have never before been published in English. The collection ... ranges widely in terms of topic, social class, and geography; both male- and female-authored texts are included to present a range of normative, descriptive, and reflective materials"--Back cover
Author : Jacqueline Broad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521888174
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Author : Fiona Montgomery
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415220811
The European Women's History Reader is a fascinating collection of seminal articles and extracts, exploring the social, economic, religious and political history of women across Europe since the late eighteenth century. This ambitious volume is arranged into four chronological sections all with their own introductions, which provide context for the chapters that follow. The collection also includes a useful general introduction, which makes the articles accessible to students and helps to define this increasingly important area of study.
Author : Lynn Brooks
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2008-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 029922533X
Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women’s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women’s dance worlds intersected with men’s, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women’s religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women’s cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women’s stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past.