The Prospect Before Her: History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800

by Olwen H. Hufton

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This book brings together a mass of detailed and dispersed material on women in early modern Europe, as well as giving readers a new interpretation of the considerable study of women which has emerged over the list two decades. The author's range is ambitious and, unlike previous works in the field which isolate particular aspects of the lives of women or of the versions of woman, she considers the situation of all kinds of women, all aspects of their lives, across the whole of Western Europe, particularly England and France, and over three centuries. The book's approach is thematic with chapters on female rites of passage - girlhood marriage, married life as well as norms, sexuality, witches and saints.
  • ISBN10 0002551209
  • ISBN13 9780002551205
  • Publish Date 19 October 1995
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 17 January 2002
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd