Uniform Title Encyclopédie politique et historique des femmes. English Title Political and historical encyclopedia of women / Christine Fauré, editor ; translated by Richard Dubois [and others]

Published New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 548 pages) Contents Cover; POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; On the Threshold of Modernity: Are Women Capable of Governing?; The Salic Law; Female Sovereignty and the Subordination of Women in the Works of Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, and Jean Bodin; Women's Political and Military Action during the Fronde; From Natural Subjection to Conventional Indifference: Women in the Political Thought of Sir Robert Filmer, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke; The Age of Revolutions; Women's Role in the English Revolutions The American Revolution through Women's EyesWomen's Political Action during the French Revolution; Sex or Rank? Women's Status in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment; From the Rights of Man to Women's Rights: A Difficult Intellectual Conversion; Women Militants in the Brabant and Liégeois Revolutions; Women and the Dutch Revolutions of the Late Eighteenth Century; The Trade of Black Women Slaves of the Eighteenth Century; Women's Participation in the Greek Revolution, 1800-1827; 1826: Women in Philhellenism; Utopia and Counterutopia: Women in the Works of Charles Fourier; 1848 in Paris Women in the German States, 1848-1849Supplemental Bibliography: Women and the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe; The Emancipation of Women in the Works of Marx and Engels; 1871: The Paris Commune; Women in Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1926; Women in the German Revolution: Rosa Luxemburg and the Workers' Councils; The Women's Section of the Comintern, from Lenin to Stalin; Struggles for Democracy; Women's Rights and Suffrage in the United States, 1848-1920; Women's Suffrage and Democracy in Canada; From Women's Rights to Feminism in Europe, 1860-1914 Political Rights of European Women: An Assessment of the Two World WarsWomen's Role in the Spanish Civil War; The Feminine Condition under Nazism: Tradition, Modernity, and Racial Hierarchization; Women's Collaboration and Resistance under Italian Fascism; Women in Vichy France; Women and Salazarism; Liberty and Equality for Women in the Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe, 1960-1980; Feminism in the 1970s; Universal Suffrage and Direct Democracy: The Swiss Case, 1848-1990; Women and Islam in the West; Turkish Immigrant Women in Europe; The Political Success of Scandinavian Women Women's Representation in Parliaments and Political Parties in Europe and North AmericaBuilding Equality in the Policies of International Organizations; Notes on Contributors; Index of Proper Names Summary The original French edition of this encyclopedia has been lauded by French reviewers, and now Routledge is proud to publish this acclaimed resource in an English language edition Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Political activity -- Europe Women -- Political activity -- North America Women legislators -- Europe Women legislators -- North America Women's rights -- Europe -- History Women's rights -- North America -- History Women -- North America -- History -- Encyclopedias Women's rights -- Europe -- History -- Encyclopedias Women's rights -- North America -- History -- Encyclopedias Feminism -- Europe -- History -- Encyclopedias Feminism -- North America -- History -- Encyclopedias Women Feminism Women legislators Women -- Political activity Women's rights Europe North America Genre/Form Encyclopedias History Form Electronic book Author Fauré, Christine ISBN 020350593X 9780203505939 020350593X

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