Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War

Author Georges Duby

Edited by Michelle Perrot

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Series edited by Michelle Perrot

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The French Revolution opened a whole new stage in the history of women, despite their conspicuous absence from the playbill. The coming century would see women’s subordination to men codified in all manner of new laws and rules; and yet the period would also witness the birth of feminism, the unprecedented emergence of women as a collective force in the political arena.

The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between these two poles, between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial…

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July 21, 1998

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GEORGES DUBY, was born in Paris in 1919. He was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s until his death in 1996. He is the author of many distinguished works on French and European history, including William Marshal, The Age of the Cathedrals, The Chivalrous Society, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, and The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest.