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

Hufton, Olwen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679450300 ISBN 13: 9780679450306

Publisher: Knopf, 1996

Synopsis

Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.

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Review:

The great insight of social history is that the record of the lives of Great Men offers a skewed vision of human experience. Similarly women's history seeks to address the unbalanced written record of humanity. Olwen Hufton, the author of several previous studies concerned with women and the history of ideas, has crafted a descriptive history of the lives of a wide variety of women over the 300-year period from 1500 to 1800. Her work is neither an act of prescription nor a narrative written as a means to empowerment. Rather, the details testify to the inequality of women's lives. Hufton seeks no single representative woman whose story conveys the experience of women writ large, but instead offers appropriately complicated interpretations of the diverse women she discusses.

From the Back Cover:

"A major effort at synthesis...Ms. Hufton has a keen eye for the extraordinary interest in ordinary detail."--New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679450300
• ISBN 13: 9780679450306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 638