HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST
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History of Women in the West, Volume II: Silences of the Middle Ages

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ISBN 9780674403680

Publication Date: 07/15/1998

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592 pages

6-1/4 x 9-1/4 inches

57 halftones, 1 line illustration

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  • Writing the History of Women [Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot]
  • Including Women [Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, translated by Arthur Goldhammer]
  • I. Norms of Control
    • 1. The Clerical Gaze [Jacques Dalarun, translated by Arthur Goldhammer]
    • 2. The Nature of Woman [Claude Thomasset, translated by Arthur Goldhammer]
    • 3. The Protected Woman [Carla Casagrande, translated by Clarissa Botsford]
    • 4. The Good Wife [Silvana Vecchio, translated by Clarissa Botsford]
    • 5. Regulating Women’s Fashion [Diane Owen Hughes]
  • II. Family and Social Strategies
    • 6. Women from the Fifth to the Tenth Century [Suzanne Fonay Wemple]
    • 7. The Feudal Order [Paulette L’Hermite-Leclercq, translated and adapted by Arthur Goldhammer]
    • 8. The Courtly Model [Georges Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer]
    • 9. Life in the Late Middle Ages [Claudia Opitz, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider]
  • III. Vestiges and Images of Women
    • 10. The World of Women [Françoise Piponnier, translated by Arthur Goldhammer]
    • 11. The Imagined Woman [Chiara Frugoni, translated by Clarissa Botsford]
  • IV. Women’s Words
    • 12. Literary and Mystical Voices [Danielle Rénier-Bohler, translated and adapted by Arthur Goldhammer]
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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