Women and Gender In the Western Past

Name: Women and Gender In the Western Past
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ISBN: 9780618246243

ISBN-10: 061824624X

ISBN-13: 9780618246243

Edition: 2007

Authors: Katherine L. French, Allyson M. Poska

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This two-volume survey of the history of women in western civilization spans prehistory to the present. While devoting attention to women of all classes, religions, and ethnicities, the text examines political, economic, intellectual, and social history through the lens of gender. The narrative emphasizes women's agency over oppression and makes cutting-edge scholarship in women's history accessible to a wide audience. Five major themes run throughout the narrative: the relationship between key historical events and ideas and women's lives, the history of the family and sexuality, the social construction of gender, cultural assumptions about women (versus their actual lives), and self…

Book details

List price: $91.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 7/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English




Unearthing Gender in the Ancient Mediterranean, to 600 B.C.E.



Ancient Greece, 3100150 B.C.E



Women in Ancient Rome, 800 B.C.E.200 C.E



Gender and the Evolution of Early Christianity, 60 B.C.E.600 C.E



Women in the Early and High Middle Ages, 4001200



Women and Urban Life: The Late Middle Ages, 12001500



Early Modern Europe, 15001700



Whose Enlightenment? Whose Revolution? 17001815



Women in the New Industrial Society, 18001900



Resistance, Revolution, and Reform, 18151900



Gender and Imperialism, 18301930



The New Woman from War to Revolution, 18801919



The Modern Woman Between the Wars, 19191939



New Possibilities, New Perils: Women in World War II, 19391945



Women and the Postwar Generation, 19451970



Gender at the Turn of the Millennium