Writing women into European history directly confronts a number of ideas aboutwhat constitutes Europe how its history is written and how this historyrelates to ... » 

Writing women into European history directly confronts a number of ideas aboutwhat constitutes Europe how its history is written and how this historyrelates to the emerging metanarratives of global or world history. TheRoutledge History of Women in Modern Europe is a landmark publication thatprovides a coherent overview of womens role and place in Western Europespanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until thetwentieth century. In this collection of essays leading womens historianscounter the notion of national histories and provide the insight andperspective of a European approach. Important intellectual political andeconomic developments have not respected national boundaries nor has the storyof womens past or the interplay of gender and culture. «