European women : a documentary history, 1789-1945 /

European women : a documentary history, 1789-1945 / edited by Eleanor S. Riemer and John C. Fout.

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Other Authors: Riemer, Eleanor S., Fout, John C., 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Schocken Books, 1980.
Subjects:
Women > Europe > History > 19th century > Sources.
Women > Europe > History > 20th century > Sources.
Women > Employment > Europe > History > Sources.
Women > Political activity > Europe > History > 19th century > Sources.
Women > Political activity > Europe > History > 20th century > Sources.
Women.
Gender identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Part One : Women and Work : I. Varieties of occupations for working-class women : "Working in the fields is not such hard work as working in the factory" (England, 1843)
  • A Temporary shelter for unemployed women (France, c. 1890)
  • "A Shop girl's day in a clothing store" (France, 1897)
  • A Woman Doctor's report on working conditions for women in Russian factories (Russia, 1914) / Dr. M.I. Pokzovskaia
  • II. Attempts to improve working conditions and organize women workers : Women workers strike (Austria, 1893) / Amalie Seidl
  • "The charter of reforms" of the women's co-operative guild (England, 1897)
  • Organizing a women's union / Italy, 1903.
  • III. Promoting the employment of women : Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (England, 1859-1877)
  • Program and statutes of the women's educational association in Leipzig (Germany, 1866)
  • Opening the German civil service to women (Germany, 1878)
  • Women to women : handbooks for choosing an occupation (France, 1891; England, 1897)
  • A School of social work for women (Germany, 1905) / Paula Mueller
  • IV. The Meaning of work for women : "Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all" (England, 1859) / Anna Jameson
  • "What is work?" (Germany, 1866) / Jenny Heynrichs
  • The Meaning of work for the working-class woman (Germany, 1930).
  • Part Two : Women's Politics : V. Middle-class women's politics: social reform, suffrage, and the first feminist movement : "Declaration of the rights of woman and citizen" (France, 1790) / Olympe de Gouges
  • "Why I am a guardian" (England, 1888) / Dora Downright
  • "The Prisoner" (England, 1911) / Helen Gordon Liddle
  • The Making of a militant (England, 1912) / Emmeline Pankhurst
  • "The Question of the vote for women" (France, 1913) / The French Union for Women's Suffrage
  • "Call to the women of all nations" (Holland, 1915)
  • "Restatement of policy after 25 years" (Germany, 1929) / International Alliance of Women.
  • VI. Working-class women and socialism : A Socialist platform for the protection of women workers / Louise Kautsky [Austria], International Socialist Workers' Congress, Zurich, 1893
  • Becoming a socialist (Austria, 1890s)
  • Women and socialism in the Soviet Union: an "official" view (U.S.S.R., 1934) / Fanni Nurina
  • VII. Women and Nazism : Nazi women (Germany, 1933)
  • Women against the Nazis (Germany, 1930s).
  • Part Three : VIII. Women and the Family in Modern Society : Childhood : Home education for girls (France, 1867) / Loiuse D'Aulnay,
  • Combating child abuse (France, 1880s) / Pauline Kergomard, French Association for Child Rescue
  • A Working-class childhood (Austria, 1880s) / Adelhied Popp
  • IX. Single Women : "Our social life has changed" : young women in the Victorian period (England, 1820 and 1889)
  • "Small-clean- alone" : the joys of living alone (Germany, 1881) / Louise Otto
  • A Rural woman : childhood, working as a domestic in Paris, keeping her illegitimate child, memoirs (France, 1886-1920) / Julliette Sauget.
  • X. Married women : The Middle-class housewife and the problem of troublesome domestics (England, 1860)
  • The Good housewife (Switzerland, 1895)
  • Advice to mothers on the feeding of children (England, 1897)
  • Triple Toil : the life of the working wife and mother (Germany, 1930)
  • XI. Changing attitudes toward marriage and motherhood : A Dissatisfied mother (Austria, 1899)
  • The Manipulation of motherhood (Germany, 1907)
  • The Renaissance of motherhood (Sweden, 1914) / Ellen Key
  • Communism and the family (U.S.S.R., 1918) / Alexandra Kollontai.
  • Part Four : Woman and Her Body : XII. Health, nutrition, pregnancy : The Importance of physical education for girls (England, 1859)
  • A Sex education guide for mother and daughter (Belgium, 1905)
  • Maternity (England, 1915)
  • Letter from pregnant working women (Germany, 1923)
  • XIII. Contraception and abortion : Survey of abortion and birth control methods (Germany, 1913)
  • "Letters from struggling parents" (England, 1919 and 1920)
  • Widening the scope of human freedom and choice (England, 1922) / F.W. Stella Browne
  • The First birth control clinic (Holland, 1928) / Aletta Jacobs
  • "I object": Soviet citizens on abortion (U.S.S.R., 1936)
  • XIV. Sexuality and sexual self-definition : "Men will have their victims" (England, 1871) / Josephine Butler
  • Challenges to Victorian morality : selections from The Adult (England, 1897-1898)
  • "The Truth about myself" : Autobiography of a Lesbian (Germany, 1901).

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