Political Systems and Definitions of Gender Roles

24x15cm, xiv,296 pp., Series: Clioh’s Workshop, 2. Contains 22 papers, all in English. Includes: J. -L. Lamboley, Women in Ancient Greece: a Political and Artistic Approach; R. Averkorn, Women and power in the Middle Ages: political aspects of medieval queenship; S. Kuster, Nationbuilding and Gender in 19th-century Germany; G. Halfdanarson,To Become a Man: The Ambiguities of Gender Relations in late 19th and early 20th century Iceland; P. Thane, What difference did the vote make?; R. L. Genov, Women in Bulgarian Society: history and recent changes; A. C. Araujo, Literacy and social order: writing and reading in Lisbon in the 18 th century; I. Porciani, Women and the writing of national history. Italy, 1860-1914; I. Katenhusen, Women Artists of the 1920s in the Hanover Region;A. Cimdina, The Post-Soviet Body of Latvian Literature: Gender and genre; L. Saracco, Defining the gentleman and the gentlewoman in the Italian Renaissance; D. Lombardi, Work and Gender in Early Modern Italy; M. van Tilburg, A Gendered Reading of Conduct Books; V. Fiorino, Voices of folly: stories of women and men in the Rome insane asylum (1850-1915); F. Cenerini, The female model and the reality of Roman women under the Republic and the Empire; A. Lemonde, Queens' and princesses' political function at the end of the Middle Ages (14th and 15th centuries); H. Jensen, From a Father-Dominated, through a Brother-Dominated, to a Mother- Dominated Society: on changing values in Modern Western culture; F. Dei, Gender and roles from an anthropologist's point of view; K. M. Schmidlechner, The Construction of Gender Roles, Gender Relations and. …