A History of Women in the West

A History of Women in the West
ISBN-10
067440369X
ISBN-13
9780674403697
Series
A History of Women in the West
Category
History
Pages
596
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Authors
Michelle Perrot, Georges Duby, Pauline Schmitt Pantel

Description

Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day.

The inaugural volume brings women from the margins of ancient history into the fore. It offers fresh insight into more than twenty centuries of Greek and Roman history and encompasses a landscape that stretches from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and from the Pillars of Hercules to the banks of the Indus. The authors draw upon a wide range of sources including gravestones, floor plans, papyrus rolls, vase paintings, and literary works to illustrate how representations of women evolved during this age. They journey into the minds of men and bring to light an imaginative history of women and of the relations between the sexes.

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