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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462439603321

Autore

LeGates Marlene

Titolo

In their time : a history of feminism in Western society / / Marlene LeGates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-23792-8

1-283-60798-0

9786613920430

1-136-77904-3

0-203-82439-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/09

Soggetti

Feminism - History

Women - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2001 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

In Their Time A History of Feminism in Western Society; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One Feminism and Patriarchy: An  Introduction; Chapter Two From Jesus to Joan ofArc; Chapter Three The Impact of the Renaissance: Women, Learning, and the CreativeArts; Chapter Four Religion, Politics, and Literature in Early ModernEurope; Chapter Five Revolutions in Philosophy andPolitics; Chapter Six Radicals andReformers; ChapterSeven The Beginnings of First-Wave Feminism; Chapter Eight Issues in First-WaveFeminism; Chapter Nine Wartime and InterwarFeminism

Chapter Ten The Origins of the SecondWaveConclusion; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Marlene LeGates has written a thorough, lively and accessible overview of Western feminist movements from the Middle Ages through the latter twentieth century. With each chapter containing a timeline and brief excerpts from primary source documents, the text serve as an ideal basis for a history of feminism or women's studies course, or as a supplementary text in a broader women's history or western civilization



course.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450840903321

Titolo

Ungendering civilization / / edited by K. Anne Pyburn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-203-59890-3

1-134-50915-4

1-280-01942-5

0-203-50118-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PyburnK. Anne

Disciplina

305.42/09

Soggetti

Civilization, Ancient

Comparative civilization

Women - History - To 500

Sex role - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Rethinking complex society; Gendered states: Gender and agency in economic models of Great Zimbabwe; The use and abuse of ethnographic analogies in interpretations of gender systems at Cahokia; The ~marauding pagan warrior~ woman; Tracing women in early Sumer; Leaders, healers, laborers, and lovers: Reinterpreting women's roles in Moche society; The benefits of an archaeology of gender for predynastic Egypt; All the Harappan men are naked, but the women are wearing jewelry

Oh my goddess: A meditation on Minoan civilizationUngendering the Maya; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. The contributors critically address



traditional views of male and female roles; they argue for the possibility that the root historical  cause of gender subordination is participation in modern world system,  rather than 'innate' tendencies to domesticity and child-rearing in women, and leadership and aggression in men. Each of the nine papers examines a distinct body of archaeological data - from societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determi