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Women of the Past, Issues for the Present by Nina Koefoed; Rubina Raja is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Women of the Past, Issues for the Present about?
The roles played by women in history, and even the very idea of what it is to be female, have always been in flux, changing over centuries, between cultures, and in response to diverse social and economic parameters. Even today, women's roles and women's rights continue to face changes and pressures. The ambition of this series is to build on the profound theoretical and empirical developments that have taken place over the last fifty years of gender-focused research and to explore them in a contemporary context. The aim of this series is to shed light on not just the outstanding and extraordinary women who were trendsetters of their time, but also the not quite so outstanding women, often overshadowed by outstanding men, and the ordinary women, those who simply went about their everyday life and kept their world turning in their own quiet way. This edited volume, Women of the Past, Issues for the Present, is the inaugural volume of the series and shows the wide span of the series chronologically, geographically, and socially in terms of the research presented. From Roman slaves to Viking women, and from medieval wet-nurses to the nineteenth-century wives who supported their archae
Who reads Women of the Past, Issues for the Present?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nina Koefoed; Rubina Raja
- Publisher
- Brepols Publishers
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9782503609478
- Category
- nonfiction