In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western SocietyMarlene LeGates has written a thorough, lively and accessible overview of Western feminist movements from the Middle Ages through the latter twentieth century. With each chapter containing a timeline and brief excerpts from primary source documents, the text serve as an ideal basis for a history of feminism or women's studies course, or as a supple |
Contents
1 | |
Chapter Two From Jesus to Joan of
Arc | 27 |
Women Learning and the Creative
Arts | 55 |
Chapter Four Religion Politics and Literature in Early Modern
Europe | 83 |
Chapter Five Revolutions in Philosophy and
Politics | 121 |
Chapter Six Radicals and
Reformers | 153 |
Chapter
Seven The Beginnings of FirstWave Feminism | 197 |
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