Françoise Thébaud is Lecturer at the Université Lumière Lyon. 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.
This wide-ranging anthropology on the history of women in the
twentieth-century West presents material on the state, work,
philosophy, war, the arts, demography, the family, and the many
feminist issues that drove the women’s movement from 1900 to the
present… One delights in such unexpected scholarship as that on
Quebec and on bioethics; the combination of predictable expert
coverage of (for example) French women and of a certain degree of
unpredictability further enriches the substance, pace, and
virtuosity of Thébaud’s undertaking.
*Contemporary Sociology*
[This book] is far more than a chronicle of the many shifts and
turns in the fortunes of women in the past eight decades. On the
whole, the contents give the reader a close and searching look at
the events and social currents behind these shifts, as well as
insight into their historical significance.
*Jerusalem Post Magazine*
The contributors…all share a commitment to write history from a
gendered perspective that emphasizes relations between the sexes
and the evolution of gender systems… This high-quality collection
offers strong individual essays that, when read together, add up to
more than the sum of their parts.
*Journal of American History*
The concluding volume in this highly praised series continues the
provocative survey of the role of women in our century through the
’70s… This series persists in generating much excitement as a
source to survey the mature emergence of gender studies in history…
This work has become a touchstone for all future studies of women’s
history. Each volume assembles an international cast of
scholars…specialists from many fields, introducing expository and
theoretical historical essays about the function of women in
history. The work avoids easy polemic and presents demanding,
academically elaborate hypotheses about the nature and special
procedures necessary to women’s history… These essays are written
with rigor, methodologically complex engagements, reflecting state
of the art of continental historical research and interpretation.
This emerging perspective will revolutionize how history will be
thought and taught.
*Reader’s Review*
Provide[s] a basis for understanding contemporary women and many of
the issues—employment, sexuality, violence, political and economic
advantage—that affect the health of women… [An] expansive view of
women’s history.
*Women and Health*
A welcome new installment of the acclaimed series, Volume 5 surveys
Western women’s history through the 1980s. Again, the focus is not
strictly chronological; the work examines the social factors of the
20th century in the context of traditional women’s issues. The
consequences of Freud and Marx; two world wars; nationalism and
fascism; reproductive legislation; the bioethical rights of family
members; and the feminist movement have created a century of
drastic and not always beneficial change… This volume and the
entire set are essential… The contributors and editors deserve
accolades.
*Library Journal*
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