Connecting spheres : European women in a globalizing world, 1500 to the present / Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean H. Quataert, with Barbara Franzoi Bari ... [et al.] ; foreword by Joan W. Scott.
Rev. ed. of: Connecting spheres : women in the Western world, 1500 to the present / edited by Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean H. Quataert. 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Overview, 1500-1750 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Joan H. Quataert -- Family and state in early modern France: the marital law compact / Sarah Hanley -- A different new world: women of Seville in the age of exploration / Mary Elizabeth Perry -- Women's work in the changing city economy, 1500-1650 / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- Communities of women, the religious life, and public service in eighteenth-century France / Olwen Hufton and Frank Tallett -- The "science" of embryology before the discovery of the ovum / Maryanne Cline Horowitz -- Overview, 1750-1890 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert -- "...with the wolf always at the door...": women's work as domestic industry in Britain and Germany / Barbara Franzoi Bari -- Women and "domestic" imperial culture: the case of Victorian Britain / Antoinette Burton -- The tiresome work of conspicuous leisure: on the domestic duties of the wives of civil servants in the German empire, 1871-1918 / Sibylle Meyer ; translated by Lyndel Butler -- In the shadows of the periphery: Italian women in the nineteenth century / Donna Gabaccia -- Feminism, antifeminism, and national family politics in early third republic France / Karen Offen -- Overview, 1890 to the present / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert -- Prostitution, differentiation, and the world economy: Nairobi, 1899-1939 / Luise White -- Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women, and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Lesbian sexuality in interwar France / Carolyn J. Dean -- The Russian Revolution and women / Richard Stites -- Gender and the Austrian fraternal welfare state after 1945 / Gerda Ruth Neyer -- Conclusion: the rebirth of feminism and its challenges / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert.
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