Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Women in History: Often Forgotten, Never Powerless

Women in History: Often Forgotten, Never Powerless

Von Westcott, Talia

Herausgegeben von epubli

English 2026 ISBN 9783565251063
eBook

Über dieses Buch

Throughout history, women exercised power, shaped institutions, led movements, and challenged constraints despite systematic exclusion from formal authority and historical record. This history recovers women's agency across diverse contexts, examining how they navigated patriarchal structures, created autonomous spaces, and influenced political, economic, religious, and cultural developments often erased from conventional narratives. Drawing on legal documents, personal correspondence, court records, religious texts, and material culture, the narrative traces women's roles beyond elite exceptions. Queens and empresses wielded diplomatic and military power—Wu Zetian ruled China, Elizabeth I commanded England, Catherine the Great expanded Russian territory. Yet ordinary women also exercised influence through household management, religious communities, trade networks, and collective action. The book explores multiple dimensions of female experience. Women controlled property and businesses despite legal restrictions. Abbesses governed wealthy monasteries with political autonomy. Guild regulations sometimes granted widows continuation of husbands' trades. Salons hosted intellectual discourse. Female mystics claimed religious authority through divine revelation, challenging clerical hierarchies. Midwives and healers provided essential medical care. Enslaved women resisted bondage through various strategies including maintaining cultural traditions and organizing escapes. Women participated in revolutionary movements, labor organizing, abolition campaigns, and suffrage struggles, demanding rights while navigating accusations of transgressing proper feminine roles. Education expansion enabled professional entry despite persistent barriers. Wars created temporary opportunities in traditionally male occupations, revealing capabilities systematically denied.

Verfügbarkeit

Women in History: Often Forgotten, Never Powerless ist als eBook in 9 Online-Buchhandlungen erhältlich. Zu den Buchhandlungen, die es führen, gehören Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

Kategorien

Sprache
English
Teilen

Häufige Fragen

In welchen Formaten ist Women in History: Often Forgotten, Never Powerless erhältlich?
Women in History: Often Forgotten, Never Powerless ist als eBook in 9 Online-Buchhandlungen erhältlich.
Wo kann ich Women in History: Often Forgotten, Never Powerless kaufen?
Du kannst Women in History: Often Forgotten, Never Powerless bei Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay kaufen. Vergleiche alle Optionen in der Liste auf dieser Seite.

Bewertungen und Rezensionen

Noch keine Bewertungen. Sei der Erste, der dieses Buch rezensiert.

Anmelden um dieses Buch zu bewerten und zu rezensieren.

Kommentare

Anmelden um an der Unterhaltung teilzunehmen.

Noch keine Kommentare.