Becoming Visible: Women In European History
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Good.
Becoming Visible: Women in European History is a landmark anthology that reclaims the stories of women erased or overlooked by conventional historical narratives, tracing their lives and roles from antiquity through the modern era. Edited by three distinguished historians — Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, and Susan Stuard — the collection assembles a powerful array of scholarly essays that reconstruct women's participation in economic life, family structures, religious movements, and political upheaval across centuries of European civilisation. This second edition stands as a foundational text in women's history and gender studies, expanding on the original with updated scholarship that challenges androcentric historical frameworks with rigour and conviction. Each contribution illustrates how women shaped, resisted, and were shaped by the social forces of their time — from medieval peasants to Renaissance noblewomen, from factory workers to suffragists. The cumulative effect is a rich, multidimensional portrait of European history that, once encountered, makes the absence of women from traditional histories impossible to ignore.
Author: Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, Susan Stuard
Format: Paperback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Good.
Becoming Visible: Women in European History is a landmark anthology that reclaims the stories of women erased or overlooked by conventional historical narratives, tracing their lives and roles from antiquity through the modern era. Edited by three distinguished historians — Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, and Susan Stuard — the collection assembles a powerful array of scholarly essays that reconstruct women's participation in economic life, family structures, religious movements, and political upheaval across centuries of European civilisation. This second edition stands as a foundational text in women's history and gender studies, expanding on the original with updated scholarship that challenges androcentric historical frameworks with rigour and conviction. Each contribution illustrates how women shaped, resisted, and were shaped by the social forces of their time — from medieval peasants to Renaissance noblewomen, from factory workers to suffragists. The cumulative effect is a rich, multidimensional portrait of European history that, once encountered, makes the absence of women from traditional histories impossible to ignore.