Women in Eighteenth Century Europe - Margaret Hunt

Women in Eighteenth Century Europe

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Buch | Hardcover
508 Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-14169-8 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
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.

Margaret Hunt

Hierarchy and Difference
Families
Sexuality and Reproduction
Food and Consumption
Work and Money
Paths of the Spirit
Cultures of Women
Civil Society and the State
Age of Revolutions

Conclusion

Notes

Further Reading

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Longman History of European Women
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-138-14169-0 / 1138141690
ISBN-13 978-1-138-14169-8 / 9781138141698
Zustand Neuware
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