An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, 'Women of Quality' examines the role of gender in arist…
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics created a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior. This has been seen as the first stirrings of a middle-class ideology, opposed to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women, but u…
"This resource for high school and college students reveals the everyday world of the Middle Ages for women: sex, marriage, power, and work, taken from history and archaeology".
"This resource for high school and college students reveals the everyday world of the Middle Ages for women: sex, marriage, power, and work, taken from history and archaeology"--
Women in Tang China
by Hinsch, Bret
fromAsian voices: an Asia/Pacific/perspectives series
"This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the sixth through tenth centuries CE. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to f…
"This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women's historical…
This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women's historical,…
