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Informationen zum Autor Gisela Bock is Professor of Western European History at the Free University of Berlin. She has published numerous books and articles on the history of women, including studies on gender relations in the modern welfare states, female poverty, women under National Socialism, and the European debates on gender relations. Allison Brown has been a freelance translator of scholarly books and essays, largely in the fields of history and the social and political sciences, especially women's and cultural studies, since 1988. She has studied linguistics and German studies, and has an M.A. in translation science. Klappentext Women in European History illustrates the social, cultural, legal and, political conditions that European women have faced from the Middle Ages to the present day. It also explores women's ideas and ideals, their perceptions of the relations between the sexes and their struggle for civil, political, and social rights. The book covers the long-standing European debate on gender relations and the roles of the sexes in society, which ultimately also posed the question of what is humanity. The study spans, among other topics, changes in marriage over centuries, women's role in the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, gender relations in the European welfare states, the European dictatorships and Nazi racism and the women's movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book concludes with an account of the emergence of historiography on women over the past two centuries. Zusammenfassung This work illustrates the social! cultural! legal and! political conditions that European women have faced from the Middle Ages to the present day. It also explores women's ideas and ideals! and their struggle for civil! political! and social rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Preface. Preface.1. Querelle des Femmes: A European Gender Dispute.2. The French Revolution: The Dispute is Resumed.3. Challenging Boundaries: A Third Gender Dispute.4. From the Social and to the Political.5. Between Extremes.6. Civil! Political and Social Rights: A New Gender Debate.Notes.Bibliography.Index of Names. ...
