A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0060158999
- ISBN-13
- 9780060158996
- Category
- Europe
- Pages
- 608
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Authors
- Bonnie S. Anderson, Judith P. Zinsser
Description
Examines women in the noble courts, middle, upper, and working classes, and salons in the cities of the modern era.
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- 2000
- 642 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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