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Women in Eighteenth Century Europe book cover

1st Edition

Women in Eighteenth Century Europe

By Margaret Hunt Copyright 2010
508 Pages
by Routledge

508 Pages
by Routledge

508 Pages
by Routledge
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Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women?  In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women’s opportunities and worldview – long before the various women’s suffrage... Read more
  1. Hierarchy and Difference
  2. Families
  3. Sexuality and Reproduction
  4. Food and Consumption
  5. Work and Money
  6. Paths of the Spirit
  7. Cultures of Women
  8. Civil Society and the State
  9. Age of Revolutions

 

Conclusion

Notes

Further Reading

Bibliography

Index

 

Biography

Margaret Hunt

Margaret Hunt has given us a fascinating picture of the lives of women and men in eighteenth-century Europe, all the richer because she draws examples from Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Caribbean colonies. Women emerge from her pages in all their variety: slaves, merchants and queens; Protestant reformers, Jewish storytellers, and Sufi mystics. A wonderful read!

Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University

This is a comprehensive and deeply perceptive study of women’s experience across the European continent into Russia and the Ottoman Islamic East. Its richly learned exploration of women’s lives across religions and cultures offers a persuasive argument for the reality of early modern Europe as 'Big Europe'. This is a landmark work.

Madeline Zilfi, University of Maryland

Hunt’s book offers a fascinating and enriching picture of women in eighteenth century Europe. The study…provides a vivid fresco of the social, economic, cultural, religious and political life of women from all social groups: from queens and aristocrats to women from the middle and lower classes.

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto, University of Rouen

 

 

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