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A history of their own: women in Europe from prehistory to the present. Volume I
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Publication Date
©1988.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Volume 1. Part I. Traditions inherited : attitudes about women from the centuries before 800 A.D.: Buried traditions : the question of origins
Inherited traditions : the principal influences
Traditions subordinating women
Traditions empowering women
The effects of Christianity.
Part II. Women of the fields : sustaining the generations: The constants of the peasant women's world : the Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries
Sustaining the generations
The extraordinary
What remains of the peasant woman's world.
Part III. Women of the churches : the power of the faithful: The patterns of power and limitation : the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
Authority within the institutional church
Authority outside the institutional church
Authority given and taken away : the protestant and Catholic reformations
Traditional images redrawn
The legacy of the protestant reformation.
Part IV. Women of the castles and manors : custodians of land and lineage: From warrior's wife to noblewoman : the Ninth to the Seventeenth centuries
Constants of the noblewoman's life
Power and vulnerability
The new flowering of ancient traditions.
Part V. Women of the walled towns : providers and partners: The townswoman's daily life : the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries
Dangers and remedies
The world of commercial capitalism : the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
The invisible and visible bonds of misogyny.
From the Book - Research Collections - First edition.
Volume 1. Part I. Traditions inherited : attitudes about women from the centuries before 800 A.D.: Buried traditions : the question of origins
Inherited traditions : the principal influences
Traditions subordinating women
Traditions empowering women
The effects of Christianity.
Part II. Women of the fields : sustaining the generations: The constants of the peasant women's world : the Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries
Sustaining the generations
The extraordinary
What remains of the peasant woman's world.
Part III. Women of the churches : the power of the faithful: The patterns of power and limitation : the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
Authority within the institutional church
Authority outside the institutional church
Authority given and taken away : the protestant and Catholic reformations
Traditional images redrawn
The legacy of the protestant reformation.
Part IV. Women of the castles and manors : custodians of land and lineage: From warrior's wife to noblewoman : the Ninth to the Seventeenth centuries
Constants of the noblewoman's life
Power and vulnerability
The new flowering of ancient traditions.
Part V. Women of the walled towns : providers and partners: The townswoman's daily life : the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries
Dangers and remedies
The world of commercial capitalism : the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
The invisible and visible bonds of misogyny.
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Zinsser, Judith P author
ISBN
9780060914523
9780060158507
9780060158507
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