The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

by Simonton; Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780415301039
• ISBN10: 0415301033
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Contributors	viii
Preface: European Women's History at the Crossroads	x
Jean H. Quataert
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction: writing women in(to) modern Europe	1	(13)
Deborah Simonton
At home in the family: women and familial relationships	14	(40)
Lynn Abrams
Female sexuality	54	(39)
Anna Clark
Learning to be good girls and women: education, training and schools	93	(41)
Rebecca Rogers
Women workers; working women	134	(43)
Deborah Simonton
Women religious and religious women: faith and practice in women's lives	177	(39)
Pat Starkey
Women as citizens: changing the polity	216	(43)
Karen Hunt
Valiant heroines or pacific ladies? Women in war and peace	259	(40)
Jane Potter
Home and away: popular culture and leisure	299	(42)
Tammy M. Proctor
Mistresses of creation: women as producers and consumers of art since 1700	341	(39)
Sian Reynolds
Index	380