Michelle Perrot Bücher

AuszugMit diesem Buch runden die Georges Duby und Michelle Perrot ihre fünfbändige „Geschichte der Frauen“ ab. Die ebenso schönen wie aussagekräftigen Kunstwerke - Gemälde, Stiche, Skulpturen, Foto- grafien - erzählen das Leben der Frauen von der Antike bis heute auf eine völlig neue Weise. „Dieser Band ist vollgestopft mit Schönheit wie eine Schublade, die nicht mehr zugeht. Eine sinnliche und sinnvolle Abrundung des Gesamtwerkes.“ Die Zeit

In the words of the general editors, this series seeks to understand women's roles, conditions, and representations throughout history. Drawing on the expertise of seventy-five distinguished historians, it presents a panoramic chronicle from antiquity to the present. The inaugural volume shifts the focus from the margins of ancient history to the forefront, offering fresh insights into over twenty centuries of Greek and Roman history. The authors analyze a vast landscape, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, revealing that ancient perceptions often relegated women to silent roles in motherhood and homemaking, largely ignored by historical records. In Rome, for instance, only heiresses were counted in the census. This scarcity of information about women contrasts sharply with the abundance of texts and images created by men regarding women and gender. The authors utilize diverse sources—gravestones, floor plans, stele inscriptions, papyrus rolls, vase paintings, and literary works—to illustrate the evolution of women's representations. They delve into the minds of men, from the Greeks envisioning goddesses to Church Fathers crafting the image of martyred female saints, uncovering an imaginative history of women and the dynamics between the sexes. Through this exploration, the authors highlight select aspects of women's experiences and the cultural narratives that shaped their identities.

Drawing on myriad sources - from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace - this second volume in the series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.

The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.