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A History of Their Own:

Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Volume 2
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Harper & Row, 1988 - Social Science - 608 pages
The second volume of the revolutionary history of European women, "A History of Their Own". Sweeping, timely, and controversial, Volume II is the only complete history of European women from the Renaissance to the present.

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User Review  - Cybele - Goodreads

Very good, comprehensive history book for women. Read it 2x for various writing projects.... Read full review

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A groundbreaking and controversial history of European women-- the first to give an original and revolutionary view of women's past as defined by gender and role. Read full review

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Contents

Wife and Queen Consort
26
Women Rulers
44
Royal Heir and Monarch
51
Copyright

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About the author (1988)

A life-long New Yorker, Bonnie S. Anderson is a Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she teaches women's history and British history. With Judith Zinsser, she co-authored the classic two-volume narrative A History of Their Own: Women
in Europe from Prehistory to the Present (revised edition, OUP, 1999). Long active in the women's movement, she has been a volunteer rape crisis counselor at St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village for over ten years.

Judith P. Zinsser is a professor of history at Miami University in Ohio. She is coauthor of the acclaimed "A History of Their Own" and author of "History and Feminism,

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