A cultural history of women. 6, A cultural history of women in the modern age

"The dramatic changes of the 20th century propelled women into unprecedented circumstances. The entrance of women into public space, particularly through their involvement in the labour market, fundamentally changed meanings of feminine identity across the globe. Massive migration created encounters between women of different ethnicities, beliefs, and allegiances. This displacement produced an exchange of critical ideas and technologies between women across cultures, between women and the state, and between the demands of homemaking and workplaces. Women were impacted by diverse factors including urbanisation, industrialisation, mass-migration and communication, the intervention of the nation-state in the duties of home and childraising, totalitarian political regimes and decolonisation, eugenics and contraception, medicine, AIDS and feminism. A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age spans the 20th century with essays on changing ideas of the fetus, female orgasm, faith and forms of worship, pathology and technological intervention, the labour market, feminism and power, and challenges to the artistic canon by women of colour."--Bloomsbury Publishing v. 1. A cultural history of women in Antiquity -- edited by Janet H. Tulloch: Introduction -- Janet H. Tulloch ; The life cycle : from birth to old age -- Katariina Mustakallio ; Bodies and sexuality -- Allison Glazebrook and Nicola Mellor ; Religion and popular beliefs : ritual practices and female practitioners -- Janet H. Tulloch ; Medicine and disease -- Steven Muir and Laurence Totelin ; Public and private -- Kistina Milnor ; Education and work -- Marcia Lindgren ; Power -- Lynda Garland ; Artistic representations : survival of the classical ideal -- Shelby Brown. v. 2. A cultural history of women in the Middle Ages -- edited by Kim M. Phillips: Introduction : medieval meanings of women -- Kim M. Phillips The life cycle : the ages of medieval women -- Cordelia Beattie Bodies and sexuality -- April Harper Religion and popular beliefs : choices, constraints, and creativity for Christian women -- Katherine L. French Medicine and disease : the female "patient" in medieval Europe -- Iona McCleery Public and private : women in the home, women in the streets -- Kim M. Phillips Education and work : multiple tasks and lowly status -- Sandy Bardsley Power : medieval women's power through authority, autonomy, and influence -- Lois L. Huneycutt Artistic representation : women and/in medieval visual culture -- Marian Bleeke, Jennifer Borland, Rachel Dressler, Martha Easton, and Elizabeth L'Estrange. v. 3. A cultural history of women in the Renaissance -- edited by Karen Raber: Introduction -- Karen Raber ; The life cycle -- Karen Raber and Stephanie Tarbin ; Bodies and sexuality -- Mara I. Amster ; Religion and popular beliefs -- Megan L. Hickerson ; Medicine and disease -- Margaret Healy ; Public and private -- Danielle Clarke ; Education and work -- Meg Lota Brown and Kari Boyd McBride ; Power -- Holly Hurlburt ; Artistic representation -- Mary Rogers. v. 4. A cultural history of women in the Age of Enlightenment -- edited by Ellen Pollak: Introduction : women daring to know in the Age of Enlightenment -- Ellen Pollak ; The life cycle : motherhood during the Enlightenment -- Kathleen M. Brown ; Bodies and sexuality : sex, gender, and the limits of enlightenment -- Susan S. Lanser ; Religion and popular beliefs : visionary women in the Age of Enlightenment -- Phyllis Mack ; Medicine and disease : women, practice, and print in the Enlightenment medical marketplace -- Lisa Forman Cody ; Public and private : public and private lives in eighteenth-century France -- Joan B. Landes ; Work and education : the case of laboring women poets in England, Scotland, and Germany -- Susanne Kord ; Power : varieties of women's political power in Enlightenment England -- Charlotte Sussman ; Artistic representation : the famous ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown -- Ruth Perry. v. 5. A cultural history of women in the Age of Empire -- edited by Teresa Mangum: Introduction -- Teresa Magnum ; The life cycle : women and the life cycle, ca. 1800-1920 -- Pat Thane ; Bodies and sexuality : sexuality and bodies in the Age of Empire -- Ellen Bayuk Rosenman ; Religion and popular beliefs : women and wandering Jews after Daniel Deronda -- Susan David Bernstein ; Medicine and disease : women and medicine in the Age of Empire -- Pamela K. Gilbert ; Public and private : the fault lines between public and private selves in women's autobiographical writings -- Linda H. Peterson ; Education and work : women and the education acts -- Florence S. Boos ; Power : memsahibs, manners, and empire -- Teresa Mangum ; Artistic representation : travel narrative and the construction of female artistic identity in the nineteenth century -- Alexandra K. Wettlaufer. v. 6 A cultural history of women in the modern age -- edited by Liz Conor: Introduction -- Liz Conor ; The life cycle : reproduction and maternal loss in a modern nation -- Catherine Kevin ; Bodies and sexuality : twentieth-century orgasms, or, the problem of female heterosexuality -- Zora Simic ; Religion and popular beliefs -- Maureen Perkins ; Medicine and disease : women, health, and medicine in the twentieth century -- Mary Rojek Kleinman and Alice J. Dan ; Public and private : politicizing the personal, questioning the public-private divide -- Bronwyn Winter ; Education and work -- Deborah Simonton ; Power : women, politics, and power in Europe after 1920 -- June Hannam ; Artistic representation : from cinema to the interactive screen -- Jannell Hobson. The dramatic changes of the twentieth century propelled women into unprecedented circumstances. The entrance of women into public space, particularly through their involvement in the labour market, fundamentally changed meanings of feminine identity across the globe. Massive migration created encounters between women of different ethnicities, beliefs, and allegiances. This displacement produced an exchange of critical ideas and technologies between women across cultures, between women and the state, and between the demands of homemaking and workplaces. Women were impacted by diverse factors including urbanisation, industrialisation, mass-migration and communication, the intervention of the nation-state in the duties of home and childraising, totalitarian political regimes and decolonisation, eugenics and contraception, medicine, AIDS and feminism. A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age spans the twentieth century with essays on changing ideas of the fetus, female orgasm, faith and forms of worship, pathology and technological intervention, the labour market, feminism and power, and challenges to the artistic canon by women of colour. Women were impacted by diverse factors including urbanisation, industrialisation, mass-migration and communication, the intervention of the nation-state in the duties of home and childraising, totalitarian political regimes and decolonisation, eugenics and contraception, medicine, AIDS and feminism. A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age spans the 20th century with essays on changing ideas of the fetus, female orgasm, faith and forms of worship, pathology and technological intervention, the labour market, feminism and power, and challenges to the artistic canon by women of colour."--pub. desc These volumes present an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. With six volumes covering 2500 years, this is the most authoritative history available of women in Western cultures. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: the Life Cycle; Bodies and Sexuality; Religion and Popular Beliefs; Medicine and Disease; Public and Private Worlds; Education and Work; Power; and Artistic Representation. This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume.