Book Description
This collection of essays explores the status of women as viewed in Western literature, philosophy and the performing arts.
Author : Frances Richardson Keller
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
This collection of essays explores the status of women as viewed in Western literature, philosophy and the performing arts.
Author : Mary Kinnear
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472080298
A history of women in the Western world
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486115542
In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.
Author : Anne Jacobson Schutte
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2001-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1935503723
This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives. It moves beyond men’s prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women’s lives changed over the life course and differed according to region and social class. They also demonstrate that in the early modern period the largely private spaces in women’s lives were not enclosed worlds isolated from the public spaces in which men operated. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.
Author : A. Allen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1403981434
According to Allen, motherhood and citizenship are terms that are closely linked and have been redefined over the past century due to changes in women's status, feminist movements, and political developments. Mother-child relationships were greatly affected by political decisions during the early 1900s, and the maternal role has been transformed over the years. To understand the dilemmas faced by women concerning motherhood and work, for example, Allen argues that the problem must be examined in terms of its demographic and political development through history. Allen highlights the feminist movements in Western Europe - primarily Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and explores the implications of the maternal role for women's aspirations to the rights of citizenship. Among the topics Allen explores the history of the maternal role, psychoanalysis and theories on the mother-child relationship, changes in family law from 1890-1914, the economic status of mothers, and reproductive responsibility.
Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1568585950
"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.
Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
"Examines in rich detail the daily lives of pioneer women". -- Journal of American History. "Anyone interested in women's history and western history will want to read this". -- Pacific Historical Review. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Erika Bachiochi
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0268200807
Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women’s rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights properly rest upon our concrete responsibilities to God, self, family, and community. Bachiochi proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights that builds on the communitarian tradition of feminist thought as seen in the work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Drawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Mary Ann Glendon, this book is unique in its treatment of the moral roots of women’s rights in America and its critique of the movement’s current trajectory. The Rights of Women provides a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern political insight that locates the family’s vital work at the very center of personal and political self-government. Bachiochi demonstrates that when rights are properly understood as a civil and political apparatus born of the natural duties we owe to one another, they make more visible our personal responsibilities and more viable our common life together. This smart and sophisticated application of Wollstonecraft’s thought will serve as a guide for how we might better value the culturally essential work of the home and thereby promote authentic personal and political freedom. The Rights of Women will interest students and scholars of political theory, gender and women’s studies, constitutional law, and all readers interested in women’s rights.
Author : Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 1611683270
Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices
Author : Linda L. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521650984
A history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles between 1789 and 1914.