Becoming Visible

Becoming Visible

Author: Renate Bridenthal

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780395796252

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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.


The European Women's History Reader

The European Women's History Reader

Author: Fiona Montgomery

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780415220811

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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.


Lives and Voices

Lives and Voices

Author: Lisa DiCaprio

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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"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


Women in European History

Women in European History

Author: Gisela Bock

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2002-01-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780631191452

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This book illustrates the social, cultural, legal and, political conditions that European women have faced from the Middle Ages to the present day.


Women in European Academies

Women in European Academies

Author: Ute Frevert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 3110633450

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The volume examines the lives and achievements of women who played determining roles in the history of European academies and in the development of modern science in Europe. These persevering personalities either had a key influence in the establishment of academies ("Patronae Scientiarum") or were pioneering scientists who made major contributions to the progress of science ("path-breakers"). In both cases, their stories provide unique testimonies on the scientific institutions of their time and the systemic barriers female scientists were facing. Conceptualized as a transversal series of biographical portraits, the contributions focus particularly on each personalities’ role in (or relation to) European academies, ensuring both a geographical and disciplinary balance. The co-editors of the volume are Professor Ute Frevert (Co-Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Professor Ernst Osterkamp (President of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung) and Professor Günter Stock (former ALLEA President).


Making Muslim Women European

Making Muslim Women European

Author: Fabio Giomi

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9633863686

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This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were silent and relegated to a purely private space until 1945, when the communist state “unveiled” and “liberated” them from the top down. After systematic archival research in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Austria, Fabio Giomi challenges this view by showing: • How different sectors of the Yugoslav elite through association publications, imagined the role of Muslim women in post-Ottoman times, and how Muslim women took part in the construction or the contestation of these narratives. • How associations employed different means in order to forge a generation of “New Muslim Women” able to cope with the post-Ottoman political and social circumstances. • And how Muslim women used the tools provided by the associations in order to pursue their own projects, aims and agendas. The insights are relevant for today’s challenges facing Muslim women in Europe. The text is illustrated with exceptional photographs.


A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800

A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800

Author: Karen Green

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1316195503

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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.


A History of European Women's Work

A History of European Women's Work

Author: Deborah Simonton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 113493677X

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The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton draws together recent research and methodological developments to take an overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the so-called pre-industrial period to the present. Taking the role of gender and class in defining women's labour as a central theme, Deborah Simonton compares and contrasts the pace of change between European countries, distinguishing between Europe-wide issues and local developments.


The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

Author: Deborah Simonton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-27

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1134419066

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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.