Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700

by Bonnie G. Smith

Changing Women in European History Since 1700

Genres: History, Feminism, Nonfiction

576 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 1988

Reviews

[Brian]

As a society we tend to view gender roles prior to the 1960's as this static force that dates back to time immemorial. This book does a job of dispelling that notion by showing how the lives of women in just one geographic region changed dramatically over a mere three-hundred years. Smith does an amazing job of avoiding what most women's studies books do, and never degrades into some trope filled feminist rant. She doles out clean cut and illuminating history for the duration of the book.

[Jillian]

For a textbook, it was actually engaging and interesting. Not bad overall, and a very interesting subject matter.

[Victoria]

Pretty pathetically out of date.