This highly respected collection of original articles on women offers the most complete coverage of European
women's history available from the earliest civilization in the Nile River Valley to the 1990s, with significant
coverage of non-European contacts. Thematic emphases include the contacts between European women and those outside
European frontiers; sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries; coverage of
women from all time periods and sociocultural backgrounds; the role of women in the great events and movements
in European history and the impact of such events on them; and the interplay of gender and women's lives over the
centuries.
20th-century women's history includes coverage of immigration and Eastern Europe.
Increased emphasis is given to differences in age, class, race, region, and ethnicity and the effects these
differences had on women's experiences. The third edition provides even more coverage of sexuality.
New topics include women in Eastern Europe, immigration and migration in Europe today, women and the Reformation,
and women in the culture of the Enlightenment.
Table of Contents
1. Women of Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, Lesko
2. Daughters of Demeter: Women in Ancient Greece, (Arthur) Katz
3. Matres Patriae/Matres Ecclesiae: Women of Rome, McNamara
4. Women in Early Medieval Northern Europe, Bithel
5. The Dominion of Gender or How Women Fared in the High Middle Ages, Stuard
6. Women in the Renaissance, Levin
7. The Reformation of Women, Karant-Nunn
8. Spinning Out Capital: Women's Work in Preindustrial Europe, 1350-1750, Wiesner
9. Women and the Enlightenment, Goodman
10. A Political Revolution for Women? The Case of Paris, Levy/Applewhite
11. Doing Capitalism's Work: Women in the Western European Industrial Economy, Frader
12. Contextualizing the Theory and Practice of Feminism in 19th Century Europe (1789-1914), Offen
13. Socialism, Feminism, and the Socialist Women's Movement from the French Revolution to World War II, Sowerwine
14. Gender, Race, and Empire in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Africa and Asia, Strobel
15. Women and the Revolutionary Process in Russia, Stites
16. Women in War and Peace, 1914-1945, Cooper
17. The "Women Question" in Authoritarian Regimes, Koonz
18. Friend or Foe? Women and State Welfare in Western Europe, Jenson
19. The Great Divide? Women's Rights in Eastern and Central Europe Since 1945, Einhorn
