History of Women in the West, Volume III: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674403673 ISBN 13 : 9780674403673

Editeur : Belknap Press, 1995

Synopsis

Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Natalie Zemon Davis was Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emerita, Princeton University.

Arlette Farge is Director of Research in Modern History, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Belknap Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674403673
• ISBN 13: 9780674403673
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 607
• Éditeur: Davis
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• Personne responsable: non disponible