ISBN:
9780582308657
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (976 p)
Series Statement:
Longman History of European Women
Series Statement:
Longman History of European Women Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Eighteenth Century Europe
DDC:
305.4094
Keywords:
Sex role - Europe - History - 18th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 m
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Hierarchy and Difference; 2. Families; 3. Sexuality and Reproduction; 4. Food and Consumption; 5. Work and Money; 6. Paths of the Spirit; 7. Cultures of Women; 8. Civil Society and the State; 9. Age of Revolutions; Conclusion; Notes; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
