Wow! eBook
Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams, Struggles, and Nightmares
Author(s): Marcelline J. Hutton (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 14 Aug. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 468 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742510441
- ISBN-13: 9780742510449
Book Description
This ambitious study provides a sweeping overview of the position of women in England, France, Germany, and Russia/USSR from 1860-1939. The book illustrates their struggles to realize their dreams and their resourcefulness in coping with often dreary, hard, even horrifying lives. Deftly combining statistical data to underscore collective experiences and belles lettres to highlight the texture of individual women's lives, the book assesses the significance of gender, class, nationality, and religion. This richly researched work traces common patterns and unique experiences in women's lives by showing how they defined themselves, coped with daily life, and confronted disaster with courage and resourcefulness.
Editorial Reviews
Review
An excellent introduction to comparative European women's history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... A commendable example of both wide-ranging and in-depth research. Slavic Review This is an excellent addition to the historiography of Russian and West European women. Canadian Slavonic Papers In this insightful and solid work, Hutton accomplishes all her objectives. None of her readers will come away from this book without having learned a great deal. -- Tatyana Novikov Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association This is an important work, one of the very few that attempt a cross-cultural analysis of the history of women. The research and range of sources is impressive; the information and analyis is new and important. A significant contribution to the field. -- Rochelle Ruthchild, Norwich University
About the Author
Marcelline Hutton teaches at Lithuania Christian College, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
