WOMEN IN THE
HISTORY OF EUROPE

Pilar Ballarín, Margarita M. Birriel, Cándida Martinez
y Teresa Ortíz, University of Granada, Spain

1.1 Women's labour in the domestic sphere

• Women and rural labour

1.2 Women's paid employment

• The new economic order and women's work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

1.3 Education and gender models in modern Europe

• Modern justifications for gender differences
• From reading to writing: women seize the word
• Liberty's apprenticeship
• Defending co-education

1.4 Women's politics. The feminist movement

• The first demands
• Fighting for the vote
• The press and public organisations
• The feminism of the 1960s

Bibliographical references and recommended reading

About the authors