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Connecting spheres : women in the Western world, 1500 to the present / edited by Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean H. Quataert ; foreword by Joan W. Scott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.Description: xvii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195041232
  • 019504133X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4 19
LOC classification:
  • HQ1150 .C66 1987
Contents:
Introduction : Restoring women to history / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- Part I. Women in the age of religious upheaval and political centralization -- Overview, 1500-1750 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert -- Family and state in early modern France : the marriage pact / Sarah Hanley -- Women's work in the changing city economy, 1500-1650 / Merry E. Wiesner -- Communities of women, the religious life, and public service in eighteenth-century France / Olwen Hufton and Frank Tallett -- The "science" of embryology before the discovery of the ovum / Maryanne Cline Horowitz -- Part II. Women in industrializing and liberalizing Europe -- Overview, 1750-1890 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- The influence of Rousseau's ideology of domesticity / Barbara Corrado Pope -- " ... with the wolf always at the door ..." : women's work in domestic industry in Britain and Germany / Barbara Franzoi -- The tiresome work of conspicuous leisure. On the domestic duties of the wives of civil servants in the German empire (1871-1918) / Sibylle Meyer, translated by Lyndel Butler -- In the shadows of the periphery : Italian women in the nineteenth century / Donna Gabaccia -- Feminism, antifeminism, and national family politics in early Third Republic France / Karen Offen -- Part III. Women in the era of the interventionist state -- Overview, 1890 to the present / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- Prostitution, differentiation, and the world economy : Nairobi, 1899-1939 / Luise White -- Soldier's heart : literary men, literary women, and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert -- The Russian Revolution and women / Richard Stites -- "I am somebody!" : women's changing sense of self in the German Democratic Republic / Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HQ1150.C66 1987 1 Available 33710000030473

Includes bibliographies and index.

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Introduction : Restoring women to history / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- Part I. Women in the age of religious upheaval and political centralization -- Overview, 1500-1750 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert -- Family and state in early modern France : the marriage pact / Sarah Hanley -- Women's work in the changing city economy, 1500-1650 / Merry E. Wiesner -- Communities of women, the religious life, and public service in eighteenth-century France / Olwen Hufton and Frank Tallett -- The "science" of embryology before the discovery of the ovum / Maryanne Cline Horowitz -- Part II. Women in industrializing and liberalizing Europe -- Overview, 1750-1890 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- The influence of Rousseau's ideology of domesticity / Barbara Corrado Pope -- " ... with the wolf always at the door ..." : women's work in domestic industry in Britain and Germany / Barbara Franzoi -- The tiresome work of conspicuous leisure. On the domestic duties of the wives of civil servants in the German empire (1871-1918) / Sibylle Meyer, translated by Lyndel Butler -- In the shadows of the periphery : Italian women in the nineteenth century / Donna Gabaccia -- Feminism, antifeminism, and national family politics in early Third Republic France / Karen Offen -- Part III. Women in the era of the interventionist state -- Overview, 1890 to the present / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quatert -- Prostitution, differentiation, and the world economy : Nairobi, 1899-1939 / Luise White -- Soldier's heart : literary men, literary women, and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert -- The Russian Revolution and women / Richard Stites -- "I am somebody!" : women's changing sense of self in the German Democratic Republic / Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke.