Women in twentieth-century Europe / Ann Taylor Allen

Publication | Library Call Number: HQ1587 .A46 2008

Series: Gender and history
Gender and history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Allen, Ann Taylor, 1944-
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-199) and index
Language: English

Physical Description: ix, 208 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN: 9781403941923
1403941920 (hbk.)
1403941939 (pbk.)
9781403941930 (pbk.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-199) and index.
Subjects: Women--Europe--History--20th century.
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