| Description |
ix, 208 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Gender and history
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Gender and history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-199) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the best of times, the worst of times -- Women and the First World War, 1914-1918 -- Women as citizens in the inter-war democracies -- Women in the authoritarian and totalitarian states of the inter-war years -- Women in the Second World War -- The best of both worlds? : women in Western Europe in the post-war era, 1945-1970 -- Too emancipated? : women in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 -- The personal and the political : women's liberation in Western Europe, 1968-1990 -- Democracy without women : the post-Communist transition, 1989-present -- From equal rights to gender mainstreaming : women in the European Union, 1980-present -- Conclusion : emancipation as myth and reality. |
| Subject |
Women -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Women. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
1403941939 paperback |
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9781403941923 hardback |
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1403941920 hardback |
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9781403941930 paperback |
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