History of Women in the West by Genevieve Fraisse

History of Women in the West by Genevieve Fraisse

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.

The fourth volume in the ambitious project of the French historians Duby and Perrot to present the history of women from the antiquities till now proves that strong ambitions are worth pursuingAfter antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period, this fourth volume deals with the nineteenth century. The final volume about the twentieth century is already published and with that a true masterpiece is done… This volume is fascinating, mainly because it gives such an extensive and comprehensive overview of the discourses of femininity and gender, and of all the arguments which have been used in relation to these themes in everyday knowledge, public debates, and social policies. -- Trudie Knijn * Contemporary Sociology *
A History of Women in the West is ambitious in conception and impressive in realization. -- Jessica Mann * Literary Review *
A History of Women in the West is a collection of thoughtful essays by leading European and American scholars… After so many centuries of confinement, drudgery, anonymity and speculation about whether or not women qualify as human, how fine to come to Volume IV and such bracing chapters as ‘Daughters of Liberty and Revolutionary Citizens’ and ‘Stepping Out!’ -- Elizabeth J. Sherman * Washington Times *

Geneviève Fraisse is Research Associate in Philosophy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Michelle Perrot is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Paris VII. Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France. Michelle Perrot is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Paris VII.

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ISBN 13	9780674403666
ISBN 10	0674403665
Title	History of Women in the West
Author	Genevieve Fraisse
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Year published	1998-07-21
Number of pages	652
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