This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe over the past 250 years. For general readers and those interested primari

This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material

It is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and the National Organization of Women was founded. Across the decad

“Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building.” —

From 1815 to 1914, European governments and their political oppositions were engaged in a constant war for the minds of the general population, especially the w