Woman Question in France, 1400-1870

A revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past, focused on contesting and defending masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Offen, Karen (Stanford University Offen, Offen Karen
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107188082
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18808-2
• Pagine: 302
• Serie: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards