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This concise historical overview of the existing historiography of women from across eighteenth-century Europe covers women of all ages, married and single, rich and poor.

During the 18th century, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, protoindustrialization, and colonial conquest made their marks on women's lives in a variety of ways.

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This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century.

From the colonial period to the present day, women across the Caribbean and Latin America were an intrinsic part of the advancement of society and helped determine the course of history.

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The 19th century is referred to as the "Woman's Century," and it was a period of amazing change and progress for American women. There were great leaps forward in women's legal status, their entrance into higher education and the professions, and their roles in public life. This book examines the factors that affected women's roles in the US.

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Students and general readers will learn about women's roles in the family, women and the law, women and immigration, women's work, women and religion, women and war, and women and education. Chapter 1 discusses women's roles within the family and household and how women's experiences in the various colonies differed.

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This exhaustive exploration of the sociocultural, political, and economic roles of African women through history demonstrates how African women have shapedand continue to shapetheir societies.

Women play essential, critical roles in every society;

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Information on women's roles and daily life in the Middle Ages has often been elusive. This survey provides readers with an understanding of how women high and low fared in the fields of religion, work, family, law, culture, and politics and public life.

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This concise, content-rich volume provides an overview of women's roles in the Middle East and North Africa from the advent of Islam to the present.

Recent research shows that women in the Middle East and North Africa have played much larger roles in society than previously acknowledged.

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For the first time, a content-rich survey on Renaissance women for students and the general public is available. Women's Roles in the Renaissance examines the attitudes and practices that shaped the varied roles of women then, but also the important ways women shaped the world in which they lived.

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Students and general readers will trace the development of American women of different classes and ethnicities in education, the home, the law, politics, religion, work, and the arts from the Progressive Era to the new millennium.

The twentieth century was a time of great transformation in the roles of American women.

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This book discusses the causes of women's marginalization in Africa, addressing issues such as time poverty, lack of education, poor governance, human trafficking, and cultural practices such as early marriages and bride price. It provides recommendations on policies and initiatives that would elevate women's livelihood and societal standing in African countries.

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Analyzes the mass media's portrayal of women's sports with a focus on female Olympians.

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The tremendous recent growth of the women's movement as a political force has been accompanied by an event of equal import to the academic world--the development of the discipline of women's studies. Women's Studies is a classroom anthology designed for use in these newly-introduced courses.

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Addresses the following central questions: what are the major implications - for society, families, husbands, children and women themselves - of the substantial and progressive movement of American women into the labor force

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Addresses the following central questions: what are the major implications - for society, families, husbands, children and women themselves - of the substantial and progressive movement of American women into the labor force

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From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces masculinist values of aggression and competition.

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Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's `invisible' work.

Gender and Society

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Recent years have seen an outpouring of new research in both gender and women's history. This book brings together articles about women's work in English history for both the early modern and modern periods.

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Major new biography of Marion Cave Rosselli, wife of Antifascist leader Carlo Rosselli

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Looking at women, business and finance in the nineteenth century, this book takes a look at women's roles in finance and investment, family-owned businesses, retailing, service activities, and the artisanal trades. It reveals that elite and middle-class women often manipulated financial resources in a highly sophisticated manner.