| 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 |
| PLATES | 289 |