European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History
- ISBN-10
- 0804734208
- ISBN-13
- 9780804734202
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 554
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Author
- Karen M. Offen
Description
This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe over the past 250 years. For general readers and those interested primarily in the historical record, it provides a comprehensive, comparative account of feminist developments in European societies, as well as a rereading of European history from a feminist perspective. By placing gender, or relations between women and men, at the center of European politics, it aims to reconfigure our understanding of the European past and to make visible a long but neglected tradition of feminist thought and politics. On another level the book seeks to disentangle some misperceptions and to demystify some confusing contemporary debates about the Enlightenment, reason, nature, and public vs. private, equality vs. difference. In the process, the author aims to show that gender is not merely 'a useful category of analysis', but that sexual difference lies at the heart of human thought and politics.
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