Women in Retrospect A Research Guide to Studies in English and Romance Languages

Summary: This guide has been designed to be inspiring as well as useful. Students will find unlimited clues for research in the 650 or so entries, enhanced by detailed annotations pertaining to women in primitive, classical & modern times. The text is divided into two sections: "Women in Society" & "Women in Literature & the Arts" with emphasis on literature. An unusually comprehensive index serves as a useful key to the text.... Annotations are in English, but titles may be in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. Male feminists as well as female are found here. Even before women could hope for equality before the law & recognition for their accomplishments, many men took up their defense: men like French essayist Montaigne (1533-1592) for education; American novelist Charles Brockden Brown for political rights in 1789; British philosopher Mill for political justice in 1869; in 1916 Spain's Gregorio Martinez Sierra for feminist activism. In other areas of the world--Africa, India, South America--women look to the West for knowledge special to their lives. In WOMEN IN RETROSPECT, Western women can find clues to the origins of their knowledge. [read more]