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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (846 p.)
• Disciplina: 320/.082
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: DuboisRichard FauréChristine
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Political and historical encyclopedia of women
• ISBN: 1-135-45690-9; 1-280-11439-8; 0-203-50593-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784147603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II