The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700

✍ Scribed by Deborah Simonton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Writing women into European history directly confronts a number of ideas about what constitutes Europe, how its history is written and how this history relates to the emerging meta-narratives of global or world history. The Routledge History of Women in Modern Europe is a landmark publication that provides a coherent overview of women's role and place in Western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century. In this collection of essays, leading women's historians counter the notion of "national" histories and provide the insight and perspective of a European approach. Important intellectual, political and economic developments have not respected national boundaries, nor has the story of women's past, or the interplay of gender and culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Book cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1 Introduction......Page 20
2 At home in the family......Page 33
3 Female sexuality......Page 73
4 Learning to be good girls and women......Page 112
5 Women workers......Page 153
6 Women religious and religious women......Page 196
7 Women as citizens......Page 235
8 Valiant heroines or Pacific ladies?......Page 278
9 Home and away......Page 318
10 Mistresses of creation......Page 360
Index......Page 399