Michelle Perrot Knihy

Drawing on myriad sources - from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace - this second volume in the series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.

In the words of the general editors, this series seeks to understand women's roles, conditions, and representations throughout history. Drawing on the expertise of seventy-five distinguished historians, it presents a panoramic chronicle from antiquity to the present. The inaugural volume shifts the focus from the margins of ancient history to the forefront, offering fresh insights into over twenty centuries of Greek and Roman history. The authors analyze a vast landscape, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, revealing that ancient perceptions often relegated women to silent roles in motherhood and homemaking, largely ignored by historical records. In Rome, for instance, only heiresses were counted in the census. This scarcity of information about women contrasts sharply with the abundance of texts and images created by men regarding women and gender. The authors utilize diverse sources—gravestones, floor plans, stele inscriptions, papyrus rolls, vase paintings, and literary works—to illustrate the evolution of women's representations. They delve into the minds of men, from the Greeks envisioning goddesses to Church Fathers crafting the image of martyred female saints, uncovering an imaginative history of women and the dynamics between the sexes. Through this exploration, the authors highlight select aspects of women's experiences and the cultural narratives that shaped their identities.

The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.

The French Revolution opened a whole new stage in the history of women, despite their conspicuous absence from the playbill. The coming century would see women’s subordination to men codified in all manner of new laws and rules; and yet the period would also witness the birth of feminism, the unprecedented emergence of women as a collective force in the political arena.The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between these two poles, between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house; in which woman’s growing role in the family as the center of all morals and virtues pressed her into public service to fight social ills.

Ženske danes ustvarjajo hrup? To je v povezavi s tišino, v kateri jih je družba držala stoletja. Tišina vojaških ali tehničnih dosežkov, tišina knjig in slik, predvsem pa tišina zgodovinskega pripovedovanja, ki ga preučuje zgodovinarka. Za zidovi samostanov ali buržoaznih hiš, v intimnosti njihovih dnevnikov ali v raztresenih zaupljivostih preteklosti, v šepetih delavnic ali trgov, v medprostoru javnega prostora, ki ga postopoma prevzemajo, so ženske delovale, živele, trpele in se trudile spremeniti svoje usode. Kdo bi nam to lahko bolje pokazal kot Michelle Perrot? Zgodovinarka delavskih stavk in sveta dela, ki je raziskovala zapore že od sedemdesetih let prejšnjega stoletja, se je zelo zgodaj posvetila zgodovini žensk. Sledila jih je skozi 19. in 20. stoletje, preiskovala tišine zgodovine in trenutke, ko so se te razblinile. To so nekatere od teh etap, ki jih to knjiga prinaša.

Un grande affresco storico, un'opera pionieristica, che ha suscitato un enorme interesse in Italia e nel mondo.

Entreprise monumentale qui a mobilisé plusieurs dizaines de contributeurs, ce volume est une véritable encyclopédie du génie féminin à travers les siècles. Marta Abba, femme de théâtre, ouvre la marche ; Zouc, sa consœur, la ferme, voisinant avec la reine Zénobie et Clara Zetkin : indice de la diversité de la longue colonne des " femmes mémorables " (plus d'un millier), objet de ce livre. Outre celles que le récit conventionnel du passé avait retenues – Clotilde, Jeanne d'Arc, Aliénor d'Aquitaine ou Catherine de Médicis – , on y croise des comédiennes, photographes, peintres, écrivaines, scientifiques, danseuses, musiciennes, sportives, cinéastes, journalistes, politiques, des saintes et des meurtrières. Ni une foule ni un peuple ; plutôt des exceptions, dont l'action a, d'une manière ou d'une autre, brisé la répartition traditionnelle des rôles et des espaces sexuels. Leur point commun : elles prétendaient à l'espace public interdit, surtout dans les domaines de la création. Elles ont reculé, voire franchi les limites habituellement imposées aux femmes. Elles sont des passeuses de frontières, des empêcheuses de tourner en rond dans la sempiternelle chorégraphie répétitive de la sphère privée, zone censée du bonheur. Elles ont parfois renoncé à tout concilier dans l'obscurité du quotidien. Elles ont ouvert des chemins de traverse. Elles ont osé. À ce titre, elles sont mémorables. Michelle Perrot

AuszugMit diesem Buch runden die Georges Duby und Michelle Perrot ihre fünfbändige „Geschichte der Frauen“ ab. Die ebenso schönen wie aussagekräftigen Kunstwerke - Gemälde, Stiche, Skulpturen, Foto- grafien - erzählen das Leben der Frauen von der Antike bis heute auf eine völlig neue Weise. „Dieser Band ist vollgestopft mit Schönheit wie eine Schublade, die nicht mehr zugeht. Eine sinnliche und sinnvolle Abrundung des Gesamtwerkes.“ Die Zeit

PDrawing on myriad sources#151;from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace-this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve distinguished historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.PMore than in any other era, a medieval woman's place in society was determined by men; her sexuality was perceived as disruptive and dangerous, her proper realm that of the home and cloister. The authors draw upon the writings of bishops and abbots, moralists and merchants, philosophers and legislators, to illuminate how men controlled women's lives. Sumptuary laws regulating feminine dress and ornament, pastoral letters admonishing women to keep silent and remain chaste, and learned treatises with their fantastic theories about women's physiology are fully explored in these pages. As adoration of the Virgin Mary reached full flower by the year 1200, ecclesiastics began to envision motherhood as a holy role; misogyny, however, flourished unrestrained in local proverbs, secular verses, and clerical thought throughout the period.PWere women's fates sealed by the dictates of church and society? The authors investigate legal, economic, and demographic aspects of family and communal life between the sixth and the fifteenth centuries and bring to light the fleeting moments in which women managed to seize some small measure of autonomy over their lives. The notion that courtly love empowered feudal women is discredited in this volume. The pattern of wear on a hearthstone, fingerprints on a terra-cotta pot, and artifacts from everyday life such as scissors, thimbles, spindles, and combs are used to reconstruct in superb detail the commonplace tasks that shaped women's existence inside and outside the home. As in antiquity, male fantasies and fears are evident in art. Yet a growing number of women rendered visions of their own gender in sumptuous tapestries and illuminations. The authors look at the surviving texts of female poets and mystics and document the stirrings of a quiet revolution throughout the West, as a few daring women began to preserve their thoughts in writing.

Il ventesimo secolo, segnato da guerre e rivoluzioni senza precedenti, è stato il miglior periodo per le donne? Come sono state realizzate le promesse di libertà, uguaglianza con gli uomini e piena partecipazione alla società nel contesto delle trasformazioni e del caos di questo secolo? Questo quinto volume di una celebre serie, scritto con una prospettiva di genere che evidenzia le relazioni tra i sessi e l'evoluzione dei sistemi di genere, porta la storia delle donne fino ai giorni nostri, collocandola nel contesto di eventi significativi e profondi cambiamenti sociali.

L'histoire sans qualités est un recueil d'essais sur l'identité historique des femmes. Elles font figure d'exclues de l'histoire ; mais c'est dans leur présence jusqu'alors oubliée que les auteurs ont cherché leurs repères. Recherche actuelle. Car dans ce tournant du féminisme, il ne s'agit pas de fuir les réalités difficiles dans la quête du passé, mais d'y reconnaître l'épaisseur et le sens du présent. Recherche à plusieurs voix. Car il ne s'agit pas de renvoyer une image unifiée ni édifiante à travers ces fragments d'une autre histoire. [4e de couv.]