Lives and voices : sources in European women's history
(Course Reserve)

[TofC cont.] World War I and the Russian Revolution: Women's popular protests in Berlin -- Interwar period: Women and French fascism / L. Blondel -- Women and fascism, World War II, and the Holocaust: A mother's diary / N. Last -- Women and post-war Europe, 1945-1980: I am a feminist / S. de Beauvoir -- The 1980s to the present: Conservative Party principles / M. Thatcher. [This] reader ... anthologizes primary source materials about women's lives and presents an overview of the variety of women's experiences dating from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary Bosnia. This primary source reader includes classics in women's history such as works by Plato, Christine de Pizan, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Virginia Woolf, as well as sources that have never before been published in English. The collection ... ranges widely in terms of topic, social class, and geography; both male- and female-authored texts are included to present a range of normative, descriptive, and reflective materials. Topics discussed include family, work, religion, culture, immigration, global economy, and politics. -Back cover.