A History of Women in the West, Volume III: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes
by Natalie Zemon Davis (Editor), Arlette Farge (Editor)
A History of Women in the West (III)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Esta Historia de las Mujeres responde a la necesidad de ceder la palabra a las mujeres. Alejadas, desde la Antigüedad, del escenario donde se enfrentan los dueños del destino, reconstruir su historia significa describir su lento acceso a los medios de expresión y su conversión en persona que asume un papel protagonista.
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Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History emerita at Princeton University and is adjunct professor of history, anthropology, and medieval studies and a senior fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto
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- Canonical title
- A History of Women in the West, Volume III: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes
- Original title
- Storia delle donne in Occidente, vol. 3: Dal Rinascimento all'età moderna
- Original publication date
- 1991-09 (1e édition originale française ∙ Plon) (1e édition originale française ∙ Plon)
- Original language
- Italian
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- History, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.4094 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Europe
- LCC
- HQ1121 .S79513 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- 7 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 14
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