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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451199003321

Titolo

Political and historical encyclopedia of women [[electronic resource] /] / Christine Fauré, editor ; translated by Richard Dubois ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-135-45690-9

1-280-11439-8

0-203-50593-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (846 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DuboisRichard

FauréChristine

Disciplina

320/.082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Europe

Women - Political activity - North America

Women legislators - Europe

Women legislators - North America

Women's rights - Europe - History

Women's rights - North America - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Encyclopédie politique et historique des femmes. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; On the Threshold of Modernity: Are Women Capable of Governing?; The Salic Law; Female Sovereignty and the Subordination of Women in the Works of Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, and Jean Bodin; Women's Political and Military Action during the Fronde; From Natural Subjection to Conventional Indifference: Women in the Political Thought of Sir Robert Filmer, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke; The Age of Revolutions; Women's Role in the English Revolutions

The American Revolution through Women's EyesWomen's Political Action during the French Revolution; Sex or Rank? Women's Status in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment; From the Rights of Man to



Women's Rights: A Difficult Intellectual Conversion; Women Militants in the Brabant and Liégeois Revolutions; Women and the Dutch Revolutions of the Late Eighteenth Century; The Trade of Black Women Slaves of the Eighteenth Century; Women's Participation in the Greek Revolution, 1800-1827; 1826: Women in Philhellenism; Utopia and Counterutopia: Women in the Works of Charles Fourier; 1848 in Paris

Women in the German States, 1848-1849Supplemental Bibliography: Women and the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe; The Emancipation of Women in the Works of Marx and Engels; 1871: The Paris Commune; Women in Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1926; Women in the German Revolution: Rosa Luxemburg and the Workers' Councils; The Women's Section of the Comintern, from Lenin to Stalin; Struggles for Democracy; Women's Rights and Suffrage in the United States, 1848-1920; Women's Suffrage and Democracy in Canada; From Women's Rights to Feminism in Europe, 1860-1914

Political Rights of European Women: An Assessment of the Two World WarsWomen's Role in the Spanish Civil War; The Feminine Condition under Nazism: Tradition, Modernity, and Racial Hierarchization; Women's Collaboration and Resistance under Italian Fascism; Women in Vichy France; Women and Salazarism; Liberty and Equality for Women in the Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe, 1960-1980; Feminism in the 1970s; Universal Suffrage and Direct Democracy: The Swiss Case, 1848-1990; Women and Islam in the West; Turkish Immigrant Women in Europe; The Political Success of Scandinavian Women

Women's Representation in Parliaments and Political Parties in Europe and North AmericaBuilding Equality in the Policies of International Organizations; Notes on Contributors; Index of Proper Names

Sommario/riassunto

The original French edition of this encyclopedia has been lauded by French reviewers, and now Routledge is proud to publish this acclaimed resource in an English language edition.