A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes

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A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes is written by Georges Duby and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 067440372X (ISBN 10) and 9780674403727 (ISBN 13).

Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.