A History of Woman: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes Volume III

Natalie Zemon Davis, Arlette Farge

ISBN 10: 0674403673 / ISBN 13: 9780674403673

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press April 2000, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of Woman: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes Volume III
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press April 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674403673
• ISBN 13: 9780674403673
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used - Good
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Synopsis

Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is “woman” as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate―sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious―conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female “nature,” women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.

About the Authors

Natalie Zemon Davis was a preeminent social and cultural historian of early modern Europe. Her many books include The Return of Martin Guerre, Women on the Margins, Fiction in the Archives, and Trickster Travels. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal, she taught at Brown University, the University of Toronto, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University, where she was Henry Charles Lea Professor of History.

Arlette Farge is Director of Research in Modern History, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.

Michelle Perrot is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Paris VII.