A first stage of scholarship in women's history called for the inclusion of women writers, artists, thinkers, rulers, and public figures. The recovery of important women, largely from elite families, was a valuable correction.
A first stage of scholarship in women's history called for the inclusion of women writers, artists, thinkers, rulers, and public figures. The recovery of important women, largely from elite families, was a valuable correction.
Presents biographical profiles of significant women from throughout the history of the world, each with birth and death dates when known, a time line, quotation, and references. Arranged alphabetically from...
"Locating information on women is difficult and the editors have done a fine job assembling and publishing information extant on individual women from many nations both living and dead. Because...
This work is one of two volumes presenting selected histories from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Examining selected societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, this uniquely designed history discusses political and economic issues; marriage practices, motherhood, and enslavement; religious beliefs and spiritual development.
Excerpted in Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents. Volume Tuvo, 1880–1950, Susan Groag Bell and Karen M. Offen, eds. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983), 2:289–90. On this point, see the strong evidence ...
Journal of Negro History, Letter from New Orleans, Louisiana to the Chicago Defender, April 23, 1917 and October 1919 as quoted in Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents (Boston, ...
As these studies mount, the idea of surveying women's past on a global basis becomes daunting. This book aims to redress this situation and offer a synthetic world history of women in modern times.
"Locating information on women is difficult and the editors have done a fine job assembling and publishing information extant on individual women from many nations both living and dead. Because...
"Locating information on women is difficult and the editors have done a fine job assembling and publishing information extant on individual women from many nations both living and dead. Because...
Women in World History: R - Schr. 13
Women in World History: Readings from 1500 to the present
Women in World History
Presenting selected histories in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, this work, the first volume in a two-volume set, discusses: political and economic issues; marriage practices, motherhood and enslavement; and religious beliefs and ...