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How did women in 16th century western Europe cope with the consequences of being considered inherently sinful--as well as being legally and economically subordinate to their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons? What might become of a woman unable to raise a dowry? What were the difficulties faced by spinsters, single mothers, and widows? In this brilliant investigation into the lives of women from all social strata, Hufton leads us from poor-house to palazzo, from cradle to grave, illuminating what it meant to be female in western Europe during the years 1500 to 1800.… (más)
This is an excellent, and rare book. It covers the history of women with a compassionate point of view that reflects the best in our modern value systems with regard to human rights and the liberation of females. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For Caroline and Clare Eliza
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In the late 1950s Keith Thomas was rash enough to offer a series of lectures on seventeenth-century women to Oxfore undergraduates. (Introduction)
On the walls of every art gallery, in collections of prints and in the vast corpus of literature remaining from the early modern period are found representations of woman and man,
Citas
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Not withstanding, it was a first nervous step towards a vision of an alternate ladder of life, one which did not deny a woman's role as wife and mother bur held out a little more hope, a little mor dignity, a glimpse of self-sufficiency, to those who either could not or would not make the standard ascent.
How did women in 16th century western Europe cope with the consequences of being considered inherently sinful--as well as being legally and economically subordinate to their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons? What might become of a woman unable to raise a dowry? What were the difficulties faced by spinsters, single mothers, and widows? In this brilliant investigation into the lives of women from all social strata, Hufton leads us from poor-house to palazzo, from cradle to grave, illuminating what it meant to be female in western Europe during the years 1500 to 1800.