A History Of European Women S Work

Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134936786

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A History of European Women's Work by Deborah Simonton Pdf

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.

Author : Fiona Montgomery,Christine Collette
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415220823

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The European Women's History Reader by Fiona Montgomery,Christine Collette Pdf

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.

Author : Renate Bridenthal,Susan Mosher Stuard,Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0395796253

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Becoming Visible by Renate Bridenthal,Susan Mosher Stuard,Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

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.

Author : Fiona Montgomery,Christine Collette
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415220815

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The European Women's History Reader by Fiona Montgomery,Christine Collette Pdf

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.

Author : Amanda L. Capern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000709599

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The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe by Amanda L. Capern Pdf

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

Author : Bonnie S. Anderson,Judith P. Zinsser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0195128397

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A History of Their Own by Bonnie S. Anderson,Judith P. Zinsser Pdf

Organization of the book focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society rather than placing women in historical chronology. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism.

Author : Sara L. Kimble,Marion Röwekamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317577157

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New Perspectives on European Women's Legal History by Sara L. Kimble,Marion Röwekamp Pdf

This book integrates women’s history and legal studies within the broader context of modern European history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sixteen contributions from fourteen countries explore the ways in which the law contributes to the social construction of gender. They analyze questions of family law and international law and highlight the politics of gender in the legal professions in a variety of historical, social and national settings, including Eastern, Southern, Western, Northern and Central Europe. Focusing on different legal cultures, they show us the similarities and differences in the ways the law has shaped the contours of women and men’s lives in powerful ways. They also show how women have used legal knowledge to struggle for their equal rights on the national and transnational level. The chapters address the interconnectedness of the history of feminism, legislative reforms, and women’s citizenship, and build a foundation for a comparative vision of women’s legal history in modern Europe.

Author : Margaret Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317883876

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Women in Eighteenth Century Europe by Margaret Hunt Pdf

Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women’s opportunities and worldview – long before the various women’s suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon. This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as musicians and actresses; feminists as well as their critics. The result is a rich and morally complex tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in general surveys of European women, including coverage of the Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe, of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of diversity in the Europe of today.

Author : Eleanor S. Riemer,John C. Fout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PSU:000010056509

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European Women by Eleanor S. Riemer,John C. Fout Pdf

Author : Patricia Branca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136242991

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Women in Europe since 1750 by Patricia Branca Pdf

In dealing with the common experience of women in modern society, this book provides a deeper insight into European women at work, at home, at leisure and in their political and educational functions. Particular emphasis is placed upon the significant cultural differences between women of various classes and nationalities. The first chapters of the book trace the growing importance of women’s work in the economic sector and for modernisation in general. Data from a wide variety of sources, including census figures, government and labour reports and personal accounts, illustrate that women have integrated work roles into a complex life style. The new image of women in society is analysed in the light of the numerous educational, political and legal reforms which took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and the impact of feminist ideology is discussed in relation to this. In its overall presentation this book, first published in 1978, illustrates the importance of the history of women not only for an understanding of the female experience but also the process of modernisation in Western Europe in general.

Author : Linda L. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521650984

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Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Linda L. Clark Pdf

A history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles between 1789 and 1914.

Author : Gisela Bock
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0631191453

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Women in European History by Gisela Bock Pdf

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

Author : Lisa DiCaprio,Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015057656517

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Lives and Voices by Lisa DiCaprio,Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

"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

Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317325789

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Women in European Culture and Society by Deborah Simonton Pdf

Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to the present day. Including documents from across Europe, from France and Germany to Estonia, Spain and Russia, organized in a broad chronological spread, the diversity of the sources included in the book is unique – including many never translated into English before. Deborah Simonton offers detailed interpretive introductions that analyse and contextualize the sources. A central feature is its exploration of how women operated within gendered worlds and used their skills and abilities to shape and claim their own identities and to engage with how they contributed as practitioners to shaping European culture and society. With over 200 sources, the book allows us to ‘hear’ women’s voices as they articulate their understandings of their worlds and helps capture a sense of women’s motivations, options and choices as they understood them - allowing readers to focus on either a period or a theme and providing a comparative resource. Ideal for use on its own or as a companion volume to Simonton’s other major work, Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity since 1700, this sourcebook is an invaluable collection offering vivid first-hand accounts of women’s lives.

Author : Gertjan De Groot,Marlou Schrover
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135747558

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Women Workers And Technological Change In Europe In The Nineteenth And twentieth century by Gertjan De Groot,Marlou Schrover Pdf

From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the features of the sex-typing of jobs. Men are seen as technically competent and creative; women are seen as incompetent, suited only to work with machines that have been made and maintained by men. Men identify themselves with technology, and technology is identified with masculinity. The relationship between technology, technological change and women's work is, however, very complex.; Through studies examining technological change and the sexual division of labour, this book traces the origins of the segregation between women's work and men's work and sheds light on the complicated relationship between work and technology. Drawing on research from a number of European countries England, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, international contributors present detailed studies on women's work spanning two centuries. The chapters deal with a variety of work environments - office work, textiles and pottery, food production, civil service and cotton and wool industries.; This work rejects the idea that women were mainly employed as unskilled labour in the industrial revolutions, asserting that skill was required from the women, but that both the historical record about women's work and the social construction of the concept of "skill" have denied this.