Women and Gender in the Western Past -1500 To Present -Volume II

出版者:Wadsworth Publishing

作者:Katherine L. French

页数:320

出版时间:2006-07-12

价格:USD 54.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780618246250

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 perception and women's place in western societies. A rich collection of primary sources and biographies reinforces these themes.