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Women in Eighteenth Century Europe (Hardcover)
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Women in Eighteenth Century Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Longman History of European Women
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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 musicians and actresses; feminists as
well as their critics. The result is a rich and morally complex
tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book
deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in
general surveys of European women, including coverage of the
Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe,
of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and
of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing
all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history
challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past
times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of
diversity in the Europe of today.
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