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A History of Their Own

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume I

Revised Edition

  Contents
  Acknowledgments
  Introduction
   
I. Traditions Inherited:
Attitudes About Women From the Centuries Before 800 A.D.
    1. Buried Traditions: The Questions of Origins
    2. Inherited Traditions: The Principal Influences
    3. Traditions Subordinating Women
    4. Traditions Empowering Women
    5. The Effects of Christianity
   
II. Women of the Fields:
Sustaining the Generations
    1. The Constants of the Peasant Women's World:
The Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries
    2. Sustaining the Generations
    3. The Extraordinary
    4. What Remains of the Peasant Woman's World
  III. Women of the Churches:
The Power of the Faithful
    1. The Patterns of Power and Limitation:
The Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries:
    2. Authority Within the Institutional Church
    3. Authority Outside the Institutional Church
    4. Authority Given and Taken Away:
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
    5. Traditional Images Redrawn
    6. The Legacy of the Protestant Reformation
   
IV. Women of the Castles and Manors:
Custodians of Land and Lineage
    1. From Warrior's Life to Noblewomen:
The Ninth to the Seventeenth Centuries
    2. Constants of the Noblewoman's Life
    3. Power and Vulnerability
    4. The New Flowering of Ancient Traditions
   
  V. Women of the Walled Towns:
Providers and Partners
    1. The Townswoman's Daily Life:
The Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries
    2. Dangers and Remedies
    3. The World of Commercial Capitalism:
The Thirteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
    4. The Invisible and Visible Bonds of Misogyny
  Notes
  Bibliography
  Index
 
Volume II

Revised Edition

  Contents
  Acknowledgments
  Introduction
  VI. Women of the Courts: Rulers, Patrons, and
Attendants
    1. The World of Absolute Monarchs from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
    2. The Life of the Courtier
    3. The Traditional Life in a Grand Setting:
Wife and Queen Consort; Women Rulers; New Opportunities
    4. The Legacies of Renaissance Humaninsm and the Scientific Revolution
  VII. Women of the Salons and Parlors:
Ladies, Housewives, and Professionals
    1. Women in the Salons
    2. Women in the Parlors
    3. Leaving the Parlors
    4. Opportunities and Limits: Challenge and Tradition in the Twentieth Century
  VIII: Women of the Cities:
Mothers, Workers, and Revolutionaries
    1. Family Life
    2. Earning Income
    3. Revolutions and Reforms
    4. Community and Change:
Women in World War II and After
   
  IX. Traditions Rejected:
A History of Feminism in Europe
    1. Feminism in Europe
    2. Asserting Women's Humanity: Early European Feminists
    3. Asserting Women's Legal and Political Equality:
Equal Rights Movements in Europe
    4. Feminist Socialism in Europe
    5. The Women's Liberation Movement
  Epilogue
  Notes
  Bibliography
  Index