Daily life of women : an encyclopedia from ancient times to the present / Colleen Boyett, H. Micheal Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason, editors.

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"Indispensable for the student or researcher studying women's history, this book draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women displayed agency by carrying out their daily economic, familial, artistic, and religious obligations"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boyett, Colleen (Editor)
Tarver Denova, Hollis Micheal (Editor)
Gleason, Mildred Diane (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021.
Subjects:
Women > History > Encyclopedias.
Women > Social conditions > Encyclopedias.
Femmes > Histoire > Encyclopédies.
Femmes > Conditions sociales > Encyclopédies.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Encyclopedias.
History.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
History.
Physical Description:3 volumes (xxviii, 1,252 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Volume 1. Earliest societies
  • The Near East, from Sumer through the Caliphate
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient India
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Rome
  • Ancient and early China
  • Classical Japan
  • The Byzantine Empire
  • Medieval Europe
  • African kingdoms
  • Volume 2. Feudal Japan
  • Dynastic China and Korea
  • Renaissance and Reformation-era Europe
  • The Americas before 1492
  • The Ottoman Empire
  • Revolutionary Europe
  • Industrial-era Europe
  • Colonial British and French North America
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Nineteenth-century United States and Canada
  • The United States and Canada since 1900
  • Volume 3. The world war years
  • Russia and the Soviet Union since 1945
  • Latin America since 1825
  • East Asia since 1868
  • South, Central, and West Asia since 1850
  • The Middle East and North Africa since 1885
  • Sub-Saharan Africa since 1885
  • Australia and New Zealand since 1800
  • Europe since 1900.