| History of Women in the West Revised Edition Contributor(s): Fraisse, Geneviève (Editor), Goldhammer, Arthur (Translator), Duby, Georges (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0674403665 ISBN-13: 9780674403666 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Modern - General - Reference |
| Dewey: 305.4 |
| Series: History of Women in the West |
| Physical Information: 1.49" H x 6.23" W x 9.22" (1.86 lbs) 652 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The French Revolution opened a whole new stage in the history of women, despite their conspicuous absence from the playbill. The coming century would see women's subordination to men codified in all manner of new laws and rules; and yet the period would also witness the birth of feminism, the unprecedented emergence of women as a collective force in the political arena. The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between these two poles, between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house; in which woman's growing role in the family as the center of all morals and virtues pressed her into public service to fight social ills. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fraisse, Genevieve: - Geneviève Fraisse is Research Associate in Philosophy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.Duby, Georges: - Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France. |