This course examines the lives and times of London women over the past three centuries from a social history perspective. It includes studies of women being regarded as the ‘weaker vessel’; ‘domestic ideology’; the ‘business’ of marriage in...
The history of literature has favored for centuries, the study authors and works from a strictly male perspective. For decades, this exclusive view of the literary fact has changed, thanks mainly to cultural and feminist studies, which have claimed...
Austrian literature over the centuries has been dominated by men – with few notable exceptions such as Hrosvit v. Gandersheim, Marie Frf. v. Ebner-Eschenbach, Paula v. Preradovic, Bertha v. Suttner. After WW II, there is an increase of female women...