Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History 
Subtitle: Essays from the Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Contributors: Susan M. Reverby (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: July 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801424441
Subjects: Feminism; Women in public life; Sociology Of Women; Literary Criticism; Congresses; History; Women
First sentence: In the twilight of the Roman Empire, monasticism began in the deserts of Egypt and spread to become the preeminent religious institution in western Europe by the central Middle Ages, the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.