1. From ancient goddesses to Christian saints / Pauline Schmitt Pantel, editor ; A new kind of history / N.Z. Davis, J.W. Scott ; Writing the history of women / G. Duby, M. Perrot ; Representations of women / P.S. Pantel ; What is a goddess? / N. Loraux ; The sexual philosophies of Plato and Aristotle / G. Sissa ; The division of the sexes in Roman law / Y. Thomas ; Figures of women / F. Lissarrague ; Marriage in Ancient Greece / C. Leduc ; Body politics in Ancient Rome / A. Rousselle ; Pandora's daughters and rituals in Grecian cities / L.B. Zaidman ; The religious roles of Roman women / J. Scheid ; Early Christian women / M. Alexandre ; Creating a myth of matriarchy / S. Georgoudi ; WOmen and ancient history today / P.S. Pantel ; The woman's voice -- 2. Silences of the Middle Ages / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, editor ; Writing the history of women / G. Duby, M. Perrot ; Including women / C. Klapisch-Zuber ; The clerical gaze / J. Dalarun ; The nature of women / C. Thomasset ; The protected woman / C. Casagrande ; The good wife / S. Vecchio ; Regulating women's fashion / D.O. Hughes ; Women from the fifth to the tenth century / S.F. Wemple ; The feudal order / P. L'Hermitage-Leclercq ; The courtly model / G. Duby ; Life in the Late Middle Ages / C. Opitz ; The world of women / F. Piponnier ; The imagined woman / C. Frugoni ; Literary and mystical voices / D. Régnier-Bohler -- Affidavits and confessions / G. Duby -- 3. Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes / Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge, editors ; Writing the history of women / Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot ; Women as historical actors / Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge ; Women, work, and family / Olwen Hufton ; The body, appearance, and sexuality / Sara F. Matthews Grieco ; The beautiful woman / Véronique Nahoum-Grappe ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer ; A daughter to educate / Martine Sonnet ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer ; Virgins and mothers between heaven and earth / Elisja Schulte van Kessel ; Women in politics / Natalie Zemon Davis ; Judging by images / Françoise Borin ; The ambiguities of literature / Jean-Paul Desaive ; The theater / Eric A. Nicholson ; A sampling of eighteenth-century philosophy / Michèle Crampe-Casnabet ; The discourse of medicine and science / Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore ; From conversation to creation / Claude Dulong ; Female journalists / Nina Rattner Gelbart ; Witches / Jean-Michel Sallmann ; Prostitutes / Kathryn Norberg ; Criminals / Nicole Castan ; Protesters plain to see / Arlette Farge ; Glückel of Hameln, Jewish merchant woman / Natalie Zemon Davis ; Anne-Françoise Cornet, Parisian artisan / Arlette Farge --- 4. Emerging feminism from Revolution to World War / Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot, editors -- 5. Toward a cultural identity in the twentieth century / Franc̦ois Thébaud, editor.
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