This new volume explores the limits and possibilities of economic change in transforming the lives of women in rural Greece at a time of great economic and poli

Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the worl

Secular Byzantine Women examines female material culture during the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine eras, to better understand the lives of ordinary a

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatte

Much of the literature published so far on gender relations in rural areas has either focused on comparisons of the position of men and women, or explored the p