A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes

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Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Harvard University Press, 1992 - History - 595 pages

Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.

 

Contents

Women Work and Family
15
The Body Appearance and Sexuality
46
CONTENTS
51
The Beautiful Woman
85
A Daughter to Educate ΙΟΙ
101
Judging by Images
187
TWO SO MUCH IS SAID ABOUT
255
A Sampling of EighteenthCentury Philosophy
315
The Discourse of Medicine and Science
348
THREE DISSIDENCES 389 CONTENTS
395
Glückel of Hameln Jewish Merchant Woman
509
Notes
519
Contributors
571
Index
577
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About the author (1992)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleA History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes
Volume 3 of A History of Women in the West, Michelle Perrot
Volume 3 of A history of women in the West: Emerging feminism from revolution to world war. IV, Geneviève Fraisse
Volume 3 of A history of women in the West: Renaissance and enlightenment paradoxes. III, Natalie Zemon Davis
Volume 3 of Storia delle donne in Occidente
Women in the West Series
EditorsGeorges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherHarvard University Press, 1992
ISBN067440372X, 9780674403727
Length595 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Europe / General
History / Europe / Renaissance
History / General
History / Women
Reference / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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