Connecting spheres
Subtitle: European women in a globalizing world, 1500 to the present
By: [edited by] Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean H. Quataert ; with Barbara Franzoi Bari ... [et al.] ; foreword by Joan W. Scott
Contributors: Boxer, Marilyn J; Quataert, Jean H. 1945-
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Women -- History -- Cross-cultural studies; Women -- Europe -- History; Feminism -- History -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Connecting spheres : women in the Western world, 1500 to the present / edited by Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean H. Quataert. 1987

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Overview, 1500-1750 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Joan H. Quataert; title: Family and state in early modern France: the marital law compact / Sarah Hanley; title: A different new world: women of Seville in the age of exploration / Mary Elizabeth Perry; title: Women's work in the changing city economy, 1500-1650 / Merry Wiesner-Hanks; title: Communities of women, the religious life, and public service in eighteenth-century France / Olwen Hufton and Frank Tallett; title: The "science" of embryology before the discovery of the ovum / Maryanne Cline Horowitz; title: Overview, 1750-1890 / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert; title: "...with the wolf always at the door...": women's work as domestic industry in Britain and Germany / Barbara Franzoi Bari; title: Women and "domestic" imperial culture: the case of Victorian Britain / Antoinette Burton; title: The tiresome work of conspicuous leisure: on the domestic duties of the wives of civil servants in the German empire, 1871-1918 / Sibylle Meyer ; translated by Lyndel Butler; title: In the shadows of the periphery: Italian women in the nineteenth century / Donna Gabaccia; title: Feminism, antifeminism, and national family politics in early third republic France / Karen Offen; title: Overview, 1890 to the present / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert; title: Prostitution, differentiation, and the world economy: Nairobi, 1899-1939 / Luise White; title: Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women, and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert; title: Lesbian sexuality in interwar France / Carolyn J. Dean; title: The Russian Revolution and women / Richard Stites; title: Gender and the Austrian fraternal welfare state after 1945 / Gerda Ruth Neyer; title: Conclusion: the rebirth of feminism and its challenges / Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert