Women In European History
(Cisela Bock; translated by Allison Brown)
This is a dissection of social, political, economic, legal and cultural status of European women from middle-ages to present day. The book deals with the most debates on the division of society on the basis of biology i.e. sex or may be called gender relations. In European history how different sexes have relation or how women and men interact with each other. In the Bible as God create man in his own image and as male and female or women refered as virgo i.e. taken from men. It depicts the inferiority of women and superiority of men on her.In this book there are debates on marriage, celibacy, sexuality, mensuration and other issues related to women. The status of women among protestant and Catholis also differ. There are different ideologies about women by different scholars like Martin Luther, Mary Astle, Locke and Rousseau etc. The role of women in French revolution either political or revolutionary, rights of men and rights of women, mother's role in the development of the personality of child and status of women in Nepolean's kingdom are also the main theme. Women challenges the bondaries which became a cllassical women's movement in the 19th and early 20th century was a movement by women and for women. The issues were economic, intellectual and moral autonomy, and self identity for the empowerment of women. The classical women movement was against the prejudice that women's are merely sexual being. After world war first, the condition of women slightly improved as the governments started to take initiatives for their upliftment. As Nazis came to power, they worked for mass mobilisation of women. They had some small nationalist women's groups. From 1941, in Britain and Germany women were started to recruit for war job. In 1960's the second wave women's movement took place and by 1975 it became the mass movement and the number of women studying at Universities has risen. Feminismism is introduced and it is understood as a social movement for women. Lberty was both known and popular in that period. Not only today but also at the recent time women history was investigated.
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