Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, Volume II, 1880-1950

Book Overview

This is the second book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1880 to 1950. The central issues--motherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and labor--extended to women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804711739
• ISBN13: 9780804711739
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"