TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Bonnie S. AU - Zinsser,Judith P. TI - A history of their own: women in Europe from prehistory to the present SN - 9780060915636 (pbk. : v. 2) AV - HQ1587 .A5 1988 PY - 1988/// CY - Nueva York PB - Harper & Row KW - Women-History-Europe KW - Feminismo-Historia-Europa KW - Mujeres-Condiciones sociales KW - Mujeres-Historia-Europa N1 - Volume 2: Part VI: Women of the courts. Rulers, patrons, and attendants -- The world of absolute Monarchs from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries -- the life of the courtier -- The traditional life in a grand setting: wife and Queen Consort -- Women rulers -- New opportunities -- The legacies of renaissance humanism and the scientific revolution -- Part VII : Women of the salons and parlors. Ladies, Housewives, and professionals -- Women in the salons -- Women in the parlors -- Leaving the parlors -- Opportunities and limits: change and tradition in the Twentieth Century -- Part VIII : Women of the cities. Mothers, workers, and revolutionaries -- Family Life -- Earning income -- Revolutions and reforms -- Continuity and change: women in World War II and after -- Part IX : Traditions rejected. A history of feminism in Europe -- Feminism in Europe -- Asserting women's humanity: Early European feminists -- Asserting women's legal and political equality: equal rights movements in Europe -- Feminist socialism in Europe -- The women's liberation movement; La biblioteca solo cuenta con el vol. 2; En portada: A much-needed and exhaustive account of women's history.- Kirkus reviews; Volume 1: Part I: Traditions inherited. Attitudes about women from the centuries before 800 A.D. -- Buried traditions: the question of origins -- Inherited traditions: the principal influences -- Traditions subordinating women -- Traditions empowering women -- The effects of Christianity -- Part II: Women of the fields . Sustaining the generations -- The constants of the peasant women's world: the Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries -- Sustaining the generations -- The extraordinary -- What remains of the peasant woman's world -- Part III: Women of the churches. The power of the faithful -- The patterns of power and limitation: the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- Authority within the institutional church -- Authority outside the institutional church -- Authority given and taken away: the protestant and Catholic reformations -- Traditional images redrawn -- The legacy of the protestant reformation -- Part IV: Women of the castles and manors. Custodians of land and lineage -- From warrior's wife to noblewoman: the Ninth to the Seventeenth centuries -- Constants of the noblewoman's life -- Power and vulnerability -- The new flowering of ancient traditions -- Part V : Women of the walled towns. Providers and partners -- The townswoman's daily life: the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- Dangers and Remedies -- The world of commercial capitalism: the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries -- The invisible and visible bonds of misogyny; Bibliografía: v. 1, p. [531]-552; v. 2, p. [433]-534 N2 - Examina a las mujeres en las cortes de los nobles, clases medias, superiores y de trabajo, y los salones de belleza en las ciudades de la era moderna ER -