Synopses & Reviews
The French Revolution opened a whole new stage in the history of women, despite their conspicuous absence from the playbill. The coming century would see women's subordination to men codified in all manner of new laws and rules; and yet the period would also witness the birth of feminism, the unprecedented emergence of women as a collective force in the political arena. The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between these two poles, between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house; in which woman's growing role in the family as the center of all morals and virtues pressed her into public service to fight social ills.
Review
A History of Women in the West is a collection of thoughtful essays by leading European and American scholars...After so many centuries of confinement, drudgery, anonymity and speculation about whether or not women qualify as human, how fine to come to Volume IV and such bracing chapters as `Daughters of Liberty and Revolutionary Citizens' and `Stepping Out!' Contemporary Sociology
Review
A History of Women in the Westis ambitious in conception and impressive in realization.
Review
The fourth volume in the ambitious project of the French historians Duby and Perrot to present the history of women from the antiquities till now proves that strong ambitions are worth pursuing. After antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period, this fourth volume deals with the nineteenth century. The final volume about the twentieth century is already published and with that a true masterpiece is done...This volume is fascinating, mainly because it gives such an extensive and comprehensive overview of the discourses of femininity and gender, and of all the arguments which have been used in relation to these themes in everyday knowledge, public debates, and social policies. Trudie Knijn
Synopsis
The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house.
About the Author
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.Geneviève Fraisse is Research Associate in Philosophy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.
Table of Contents
Writing the History of Women
Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot Orders and Liberties
Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer 1. The Political Rupture and the New Order of Discourse
1. Daughters of Liberty and Revolutionary Citizens
Dominique Godineau
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
2. The French Revolution as the Turning Point
Elisabeth G. Sledziewski
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
3. A Philosophical History of Sexual Difference
Geneviève Fraisse
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
4. The Law's Contradictions
Nicole Arnaud-Duc
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
2. The Production of Women, Real and Imaginary
5. Artistic and Literary Idolatries
Stéphane Michaud
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
6. Reading and Writing in Germany
Marie-Claire Hoock-Demarle
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
7. The Catholic Model
Michela De Giorgio
Translated by Joan Bond Sax
8. The Protestant Woman
Jean Baubérot
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
9. The Making of the Modern Jewish Woman
Nancy L. Green
10. The Secular Model of Girls' Education
Françoise Mayeur
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
11. Images--Appearances, Leisure, and Subsistence
Anne Higonnet
12. Representations of Women
Anne Higonnet
3. The Civil Woman, Public and Private
13. Bodies and Hearts
Yvonne Knibiehler
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
14. Dangerous Sexualities
Judith R. Walkowitz
15. The Woman Worker
Joan W. Scott
16. Single Women
Cécile Dauphin
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
4. Modernities
17. Stepping Out
Michelle Perrot
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
18. Feminist Scenes
Anne-Marie Käppeli
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
19. The New Eve and the Old Adam
annelise Maugue
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
5. Women's Voices
Germaine de Staël
Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Illustration Credits
Index
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