History of Women in the West, Volume IV - Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1998
Editors:	Genevieve Fraisse • Michelle Perrot
Translators:	Arthur Goldhammer
Series editors:	Georges Duby • Michelle Perrot
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	652
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-40366-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-674-40366-5
Barcode:	9780674403666

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