Political Systems and Definitions of Gender Roles
 
Preface
A.K. Isaacs
p. VII
Introduction
A.K. Isaacs
XIII
POLITICS AND POWER  
Women in Ancient Greece: a Political and Artistic Approach
J.-L. Lamboley
1
Women and Power in the Middle Ages: Political Aspects of Medieval Queenship
R. Averkorn
11
Nationbuilding and Gender in 19th-Century Germany
S. Küster
31
To Become a Man: The Ambiguities of Gender Relations in Late 19th
and Early 20th Century Iceland
G. Hálfdanarson
43
What Difference did the Vote Make?
P. Thane
53
Women in Bulgarian Society: History and Recent Changes
R.L. Genov
83
WRITING AND CULTURE  
Literacy and Social Order: Writing and Reading in Lisbon in the 18th Century
A.C. Araújo
93
Women and the Writing of National History. Italy, 1860-1914
I. Porciani
107
Women Artist of the 1920s in the Hannover Region
I. Katenhusen
117
The Post-Soviet Body of Latvian Literature: Gender and Genre
A. Cimdina
131
CONDUCT  
Defining the Gentleman and the Gentlewoman in the Italian Renaissance
L. Saracco
143
Work and Gender in Early Modern Italy
D. Lombardi
157
A Gendered Reading of Conduct Books
M. van Tilburg
165
Voices of Folly: Stories of Women and Man in the Rome Insane Asylum (1850-1915)
V. Fiorino
179
MODELS  
The Female Model and the Reality of Roman Women
under the Republic and the Empire
F. Cenerini
193
Queen's and Princesses' Political Function at the end of the Middle Ages
(14th and 15th Centuries)
A. Lemonde
203
From a Father-Domitated. through a Brother-Dominated. to a Mother-Dominated
Society: on Changing Values in Modern Western Culture
H. Jensen
215
Gender and roles from an anthropologist's point of view
F. Dei
225
FAMILIES AND SEXUALITY  
The Construction of Gender Roles, Gender Relations and Political
Representation in Austria since 1945
K.M. Schmidlecher
235
Motherhood and Politics in Recent Austrian History
M. Habernig
245
The Condition of Women in Romania during the Communist Period
V. Vese
267
Representations of Homosexuality and the Separation of Gender and Sexuality
in the Czech Republic Before and After 1989
V. Sokolova
273
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