History of Women in the West, Volume III: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes

Davis, Natalie Zemon

ISBN 10: 067440372X / ISBN 13: 9780674403727

Published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993

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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: 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.

Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emerita, Princeton University.

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

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Bibliographic Details

Title: History of Women in the West, Volume III: ...
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good