The Prospect before her : a history of women in Western Europe

Author(s)

• Hufton, Olwen H.

Bibliographic Information

The Prospect before her : a history of women in Western Europe

Olwen Hufton

Fontana Press, 1997, c1995

• v. 1

Note

v. 1. 1500-1800

Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-628) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work considers the situation of all kinds of women, in all aspects of their lives, across the whole of Western Europe over three centuries. Chapters cover female rites of passage - girlhood and work, marriage, married life and work, parenthood and widowhood. It looks in detail at those women who deviated from the norm in some way - the sexually deveiant or unlucky, prostitutes, witches or saints, Protestant and Catholic enthusiasts, women writers, women rioters. This first volume ends in 1800 with the French Revolution.

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Details

• NCID: BA29783468
• ISBN:
  • 0006863515
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 654 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1587
  • DC21 : 305.4/094
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Europe, Western -- History
  • LCSH : Women -- Europe, Western -- Social conditions