The Prospect Before Her by Olwen Hufton

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The Prospect Before Her by Olwen Hufton

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This work considers the situation of all kinds of women, in all aspects of their lives, across the whole of Western Europe over three centuries. Chapters cover female rites of passage - girlhood and work, marriage, married life and work, parenthood and widowhood.

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The Prospect Before Her by Olwen Hufton

This work considers the situation of all kinds of women, in all aspects of their lives, across the whole of Western Europe over three centuries. Chapters cover female rites of passage - girlhood and work, marriage, married life and work, parenthood and widowhood. It looks in detail at those women who deviated from the norm in some way - the sexually deveiant or unlucky, prostitutes, witches or saints, Protestant and Catholic enthusiasts, women writers, women rioters. This first volume ends in 1800 with the French Revolution.

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ISBN 13 9780006863519
ISBN 10 0006863515
Titel The Prospect Before Her
Autor Olwen Hufton
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag HarperCollins Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr 1997-03-03
Seitenanzahl 672
Preise Winner of Fawcett Society Book Prize 1996
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