Title: A history of their own : women in Europe from prehistory to the present /
Authors: Anderson, Bonnie S.; Zinsser, Judith P.
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Women Europe History; Feminism Europe History.; Europe Civilization
Abstract: Examines women in the noble courts, middle, upper, and working classes, and salons in the cities of the modern era.
Contents: Volume 1: Part I: Traditions inherited. Attitudes about women from the centuries before 800 A.D. -- Buried traditions: the question of origins -- Inherited traditions: the principal influences -- Traditions subordinating women -- Traditions empowering women -- The effects of Christianity -- Part II: Women of the fields . Sustaining the generations -- The constants of the peasant women's world: the Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries -- Sustaining the generations -- The extraordinary -- What remains of the peasant woman's world -- Part III: Women of the churches. The power of the faithful -- The patterns of power and limitation: the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- Authority within the institutional church -- Authority outside the institutional church -- Authority given and taken away: the protestant and Catholic reformations -- Traditional images redrawn -- The legacy of the protestant reformation -- Part IV: Women of the castles and manors. Custodians of land and lineage -- From warrior's wife to noblewoman: the Ninth to the Seventeenth centuries -- Constants of the noblewoman's life -- Power and vulnerability -- The new flowering of ancient traditions -- Part V : Women of the walled towns. Providers and partners -- The townswoman's daily life: the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- Dangers and Remedies -- The world of commercial capitalism: the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- The invisible and visible bonds of misogyny.