Gender and History in Western Europe

by Robert Brink Shoemaker (Editor)

This volume provides a clear and accessible guide to the evolution and use of gender as a concept in historical studies. It presents some of the most influential contributions in the field, outlining the key issues of historical the feminine and masculine domains in history; anatomical conceptions of sexual difference; the development of domestic ideology; seventeenth-century female prophets and the nineteenth-century Marian revival; the role of women in formal and informal political behaviour and discourse; and the role of gender conflict in periodic realignments of the sexual division of labour.

Genres: European History, History

400 pages, Hardcover

Published June 25, 1998