商品簡介
Hunt (History and Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College) presents a comprehensive picture of women's lives during a century of major social, cultural, and political change. Radically altering the lives of women, some of these changes caused immense confusion and suffering, while others greatly expanded women's opportunities and worldview. The book looks at the lives of women of all sorts: queens and commoners; respectable working women and prostitutes; women scientists and actresses; and feminists and their critics. Hunt covers regions and topics often slighted in general surveys of European women, including the Balkans, European Turkey and Anatolia; Eastern Europe; European colonial expansion and the slave trade; and Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women. Challenging much "common knowledge" about the history of European women, this volume will greatly interest social historians and general readers interested in women's history. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
