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This two-volume survey of the history of women in western civilization spans prehistory to the present. While devoting attention to women of all classes, religions, and ethnicities, the text examines political, economic, intellectual, and social history through the lens of gender. The narrative emphasizes women's agency over oppression and makes cutting-edge scholarship in women's history accessible to a wide audience. Five major themes run throughout the narrative: the relationship between key historical events and ideas and women's lives, the history of the family and sexuality, the social construction of gender, cultural assumptions about women (versus their actual lives), and self perception and women's place in western societies. A rich collection of primary sources and biographies reinforces these themes.

This is a two-volume women's history survey of Western Civilisation from prehistory to the present. The text examines women of all classes, religions and ethnicities. The narrative is balanced to include political, economic, intellectual and social history. The text emphasises women's agency over oppression and makes available the latest cutting-edge scholarship in women's history to a wider audience. Five major themes run throughout the narrative: the relationship between key historical events, ideas and women's lives; the history of the family and sexuality and their impact on women; the social construction of gender (both masculinity and femininity) in western societies; the differences between cultural ideas about women and the lives of actual women; women's perceptions of themselves and their place in western societies.