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History of Women in the West, Volume I: from Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints

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ISBN-10: 067440369X

ISBN-13: 9780674403697

Edition: 1992

Authors: Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Arthur Goldhammer, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot

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Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day. The inaugural volume brings women from the margins of ancient history into the fore. It offers fresh insight into more than twenty centuries of Greek and Roman history and encompasses a landscape that stretches from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and from the Pillars of Hercules to the banks of the Indus. The authors draw upon a wide range of sources including gravestones, floor plans, papyrus rolls, vase paintings, and literary works to illustrate how representations of women evolved during this age.…    
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Michelle Perrot is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Paris VII.

A New Kind of History Natalie Zemon Davis and Joan Wallach Scott
Writing the History of Women Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot Representations of Women Pauline
Feminine Models of the Ancient World
What is a Goddess?
The Sexual Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle
The Division of the Sexes in Roman Law
Figures of Women
Traditional Rituals Women Share
Marriage in Ancient Greece
Body Politics in Ancient
Pandora's Daughters and Rituals in Grecian Cities
The Religious Roles of Roman Women
Early Christian Women
Yesterday and Today
Creating a Myth of Matriarchy
Women and Ancient History Today
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Illustration
Credits
Index