دانلود کتاب A history of their own

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I. TRADITIONS INHERITED
ATTITUDES ABOUT WOMEN FROM THE CENTURIES
BEFORE 800 A.D.
1.Buried Traditions: The Question of Origins 3 Archaeological Evidence — Biological Evidence — Psychological Evidence — Anthropological Evidence — Written Evidence
2. Inherited Traditions: The Principal Influences 24
3. Traditions Subordinating Women 26 Women \'s Approved Roles — Women \'s Dishonorable Roles: Slave, Prostitute, and Concubine — Misogyny
4. Traditions Empowering Women 52 Worship of Goddesses — Women Warriors — Women in Power: Queens and
Empresses — Women of Wealth — Educated and Artistic Women
5. The Effects of Christianity 67
Beliefs and Practices Empowering Women — Beliefs and Practices Subordinating Women
II. WOMEN OF THE FIELDS
SUSTAINING THE GENERATIONS
I. The Constants of the Peasant Woman\'s World: The Ninth to the Twentieth Centuries 87
The Life — The Landscape — The Year\'s Activities - Children and
Nurturing — Threats to SurvivalVI CONTENTS
2. Sustaining the Generations 119
The Family and Marriage — Access to the Land - Additional Income —
Impossible Choices — Survival Outside the Family — Giving Value
3. The Extraordinary 151
Joan of Arc — The Witchcraft Persecutions
4. What Remains of the Peasant Woman\'s World 174
III. WOMEN OF THE CHURCHES
THE POWER OF THE FAITHFUL
1. The Patterns of Power and Limitation: The Tenth to the Seventeenth
Centuries 181
2. Authority Within the Institutional Church 183 The Great Abbesses and Learned Holy Communities — Reformed Religious
Orders: The Twelfth and the Thirteenth Centuries — The Cloistered Life of the Nun — Mystics: The Ecstatic Life
3. Authority Outside the Institutional Church 214
Challenges to Established Dogma and Established Orders — The Virgin Mary — Exemplars, Tertiaries, and Beguines — Heresy: The Limits of Power Through Faith
4. Authority Given and Taken Away: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations 228
Religious Enthusiasm Reborn: The Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries —
Queens, Princesses, and Noblewomen — Protesters, Proselytizers, Unorthodox
Nuns, and Martyrs — Limiting Roles: The Woman \'s Proper Place
5. Traditional Images Redrawn 253
The Female Nature — The Christian Family
6. The Legacy of the Protestant Reformation 264
IV. WOMEN OF THE CASTLES AND MANORS
CUSTODIANS OF LAND AND LINEAGE
1. From Warrior\'s Wife to Noblewoman: The Ninth to the Seventeenth
Centuries 269
2. Constants of the Noblewoman\'s Life 272 War - Marriage — Land, Faith, and ChildrenContents vii
3. Power and Vulnerability 297
Wives and Daughters in the World of Feudalism: The Ninth to the Twelfth Centuries — Courtly Love and Codes of Chivalry — Wives and Daughters in the World of Centralized Monarchies: The Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries — Widows and Mothers: The Ninth to the Seventeenth Centuries
4. Tlie New Flowering of Ancient Traditions 332
In Literature — In Law and Practice — The Ideal Woman
V. WOMEN OF THE WALLED TOWNS
PROVIDERS AND PARTNERS
1. The Townswoman\'s Daily Life: The Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries 353
Alleyways, Streets, and Squares — The Poor — Guildswomen — Merchants\' Wives
2. Dangers and Remedies 378
Natural Disasters and War — Disease and Childhearing — Faith in God,
Repentance, and the Saints - Prayers to the Virgin Mary
3. The World of Commercial Capitalism: The Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries 392
Protected and Provided For — The Business of Marriage and Charity — Old
Crafts — New Professions: Art and Medicine — Capitalist Entrepreneurs
4. TTie Invisible and Visible Bonds of Misogyny 431 Old Tales Retold — Sumptuary and Adultery Laws - Abuse of Women:
Violence and Ridicule — The Ideal Marriage and the Perfect Wife