A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes

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Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Harvard University Press, 1992 - 595 pages

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.

 

Table des matières

Women Work and Family
15
The Body Appearance and Sexuality
46
CONTENTS
51
The Beautiful Woman
85
A Daughter to Educate ΙΟΙ
101
Judging by Images
187
TWO SO MUCH IS SAID ABOUT
255
A Sampling of EighteenthCentury Philosophy
315
The Discourse of Medicine and Science
348
THREE DISSIDENCES 389 CONTENTS
395
Glückel of Hameln Jewish Merchant Woman
509
Notes
519
Contributors
571
Index
577
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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.