Karen Offen (California Stanford University)

The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Debates around the 'woman question' originated in France in the late Middle Ages, and Karen Offen here offers a panoramic account of changing ideas of who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 291
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781316638422
• ISBN-10: 1316638421
• Artikelnr.: 55923214

Autorenporträt

Karen Offen is a historian and a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, California, where she received her Ph.D.

Inhaltsangabe

Confronting the woman question in French history: a general introduction
1. Querying women's power and influence in French culture
2. Assessing the problem of women and political authority in French history
3. Bio-medical thinking, population concerns, and the politics of sexual knowledge
4. Education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge
5. The politics of women's history in nineteenth-century France
6. The politics of women's work in France before 1870
7. Taking stock: the women question on the eve of the Third Republic
Appendix with important dates
Index.