Especially for the ladies here. If you have not seen these books you might want to:
A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST, general editor: Georges Duby. Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University, c1991-1994. Five volumes.
Volume 1: FROM ANCIENT GODDESSES TO CHRISTIAN SAINTS.
Volume 2: SILENCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
Volume 3: RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT PARADOXES.
Volume 4: EMERGING FEMINISM FROM REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR
Volume 5: TOWARD A CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE TWENTIETY CENTURY.
Check them out yourself.
Take Care, John H.
A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST, general editor: Georges Duby. Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University, c1991-1994. Five volumes.
Volume 1: FROM ANCIENT GODDESSES TO CHRISTIAN SAINTS.
Volume 2: SILENCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
Volume 3: RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT PARADOXES.
Volume 4: EMERGING FEMINISM FROM REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR
Volume 5: TOWARD A CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE TWENTIETY CENTURY.
Check them out yourself.
Take Care, John H.