Gendered Domains
Subtitle: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History
Contributors: Susan M. Reverby (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: July 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801497025
Subjects: Feminism; Women in public life; History: World; Sociology; Women's Studies - General; History; Congresses; 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.