Young Lady of the Shop by James Tissot, 1883-85 WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Theresa McBride, History, Holy Cross College
 
General Works
Bell, Susan Groag and Karen M. Offen, eds. Women, the Family, and Freedom, 2 vols. (1983)
Riemer, Eleanor and John Fout.  European Women: A Documentary History (1980)
Smith, Bonnie.  Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700 (1989)
 

Domesticity and Marriage, Religion, Philanthropy, and Women's Health

Allen, Ann Taylor.  "Spiritual Motherhood: German Feminists and the Kindergarten Movement, 1848-1911," History of Education Quarterly (1982)
Davidoff, Leonore.  The Best Circles.  Society, Etiquette, and the Season (1973).
_____. Worlds Between (1995)
Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall.  Family Fortunes.  Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1860 (1987)
Gillis, John.  For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600-Present (1985)
Malmgreen, Gail, ed.  Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930 (1986)
Prelinger, Catherine M. Charity, Challenge, and Change.  Religious Dimensions of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Women's Movement in Germany (1987)
Perkin, Joan.  Victorian Women (1993)
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England (1980)
Russett, Cynthia Eagle.  Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood (1989)
Shorter, Edward. A History of Women's Bodies (1982)
Smith, Bonnie G. Ladies of the Leisure Class (1981)
Tovrov, Jessica.  "Mother-Child Relationships," The Family in Imperial Russia, David Ransel,ed. (1976)
Valenze, Deborah.  The First Industrial Woman (1995)
Vicinus, Martha, ed.  Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (1973)

Modern Feminism
Adler, Hans.  "On a Feminist Controvery: Louise Otto vs Louise Aston," in Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes, eds., German Women in the Eighteenth and Nine-teenth Centuries (1986)
Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola. Liberazione della donna (1986)
Duchen, Claire. Feminism in France:  From May '68 to Mitterrand (1986)
Engel, Barbara.  Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth- Century Russia (1983)
Holcombe,  Lee.  Wives  and  Property:  Reform  of the Married   Women's  Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England (1983)
Howard, Judith Jeffrey. "Patriot Mothers in the Post-Risorgimento: Women after the Italian Revolution, in Carol Berkin and Clara Lovett, eds., Women, War, and Revolution (1980)
Marks, Elaine, and Isabelle de Courtivron, eds. New French Feminisms (1980)
Moses, Claire Goldberg.  French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (1984)
Rendall, Jane.  Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France, and the United States, 1780-1860 (1985)
Rupp, Leila.  Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement (1997)
Scott, Joan Wallach.  Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996)
Waelti-Walters, Jennifer and Steven Hause, eds.  Feminisms of the Belle Epoque.

Work and Family in the Nineteenth Century
Bachrach, Susan.  Dames Employees: The Feminization  of  Postal Work in 19th C. France (1984)
Bell, Rudolph M. Fate  and  Honor,  Family  and  Village.  Demographic  and  Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800 (1979)
Boxer, Marilyn, and Jean Quataert.  Socialist Women: Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century (1978)
Coffin, Judith.  "Credit, Consumption, and Images of Women's Desires: Selling the Sewing Machine in Late Nineteenth-Century France," French Historical Studies, 18 (Spring 1994)
Franzoi, Barbara.  At the Very Least She Pays the Rent: Women and German Industrialization (1985)
Fuchs, Rachel.  Poor and Pregnant in Paris (1991)
Grafteaux, Serge.  Mémé Santerre.  A French Woman of the People.  Tr.  Louise A. Tilly and Kathryn Tilly (1985)
Harris, Ruth.  Murders and Madness
Hilden, Patricia.  Working Women and Socialist Politics in France 1880-1914 (1986)
Holcombe, Lee.  Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle Class Working Women in England and Wales, 186O-1914 (1973)
Honeycut, Karen.  "Clara Zetkin: A Socialist Approach to the Problem of Women's Oppression,"  European Women on the Left, Jane Slaughter and Robert Kern, eds.(1981)
Jalland, Pat. Women, Marriage, and Politics, 1860-1914 (1988)
McBride, Theresa, "A Woman's World: Department Stores and the Evolution of Women's Employment, 1870-1920," French Historical Studies (Fall 1978)
Quataert, Jean H. Reluctant Feminists in German Social Democracy 1880-1917 (1979)
Ross, Ellen.  "'Fierce Questions and Taunts': Married Life in Working-Class London 1870-1914," Feminist Studies (1982)
_____. "Labour and Love: Rediscovering London's Working-Class Mothers, 1870-1918, in Jane Lewis, ed., Labour and Love (1986)
Tilly, Louise and Joan Scott. Women, Work and Family (1978)

The New Woman, Birth Control and Sexual Rights
Kent, Susan Kingsley.  Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (1987)
Lundell, Torberg.  "Ellen Key and Swedish Feminist Views on Motherhood," Scandinavian Studies (1984)
McLaren, Angus.  Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England (1978)
Offen, Karen. "Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach," Signs (1988)
 

World Wars, Pacifism, Revolution, Consumerism
Anscombe, Isabelle.  A Woman's Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the Present (1984)
Brittain, Vera.  Testament of Youth (1933)
Davies, Margaret L., ed.  Life as We Have Known It (1931)
Gittins, Diana.  Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1930-1939 (1982)
Higgonet, Margaret Randolph, Jean Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret Collins Weitz, eds.  Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (1987)
Kent, Susan Kingsley.  "The Politics of Sexual Difference.  World War I and the Demise of British Feminism," Journal of British Studies (1988)
Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland (1987)
MacCurtain, Margaret and Donncha O'Corrain, eds. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension (1978)
Mason, Tim.  "Women in Germany, 1925-1940," History Workshop (1976)
Meyer, Donald. Sex and Power.  The Rise of Women in America, Russia, Sweden, and Italy (1987)
Riley, Denie. War in the Nursery
Ward, Margaret.  Unmanageable Revolutionaries.  Women and Irish Nationalism (1983)
Wilson, Elizabeth.  Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain: 1945-1968 (1980)
Wiltscher, Anne.  Most Dangerous Women (1985)

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