Cover -- POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On the Threshold of Modernity: Are Women Capable of Governing? -- The Salic Law -- Female Sovereignty and the Subordination of Women in the Works of Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, and Jean Bodin -- Women's Political and Military Action during the Fronde -- From Natural Subjection to Conventional Indifference: Women in the Political Thought of Sir Robert Filmer, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke -- The Age of Revolutions -- Women's Role in the English Revolutions -- The American Revolution through Women's Eyes -- Women's Political Action during the French Revolution -- Sex or Rank? Women's Status in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment -- From the Rights of Man to Women's Rights: A Difficult Intellectual Conversion -- Women Militants in the Brabant and Liégeois Revolutions -- Women and the Dutch Revolutions of the Late Eighteenth Century -- The Trade of Black Women Slaves of the Eighteenth Century -- Women's Participation in the Greek Revolution, 1800-1827 -- 1826: Women in Philhellenism -- Utopia and Counterutopia: Women in the Works of Charles Fourier -- 1848 in Paris -- Women in the German States, 1848-1849 -- Supplemental Bibliography: Women and the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe -- The Emancipation of Women in the Works of Marx and Engels -- 1871: The Paris Commune -- Women in Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1926 -- Women in the German Revolution: Rosa Luxemburg and the Workers' Councils -- The Women's Section of the Comintern, from Lenin to Stalin -- Struggles for Democracy -- Women's Rights and Suffrage in the United States, 1848-1920 -- Women's Suffrage and Democracy in Canada -- From Women's Rights to Feminism in Europe, 1860-1914 -- Political Rights of European Women: An Assessment of the Two World Wars.

Women's Role in the Spanish Civil War -- The Feminine Condition under Nazism: Tradition, Modernity, and Racial Hierarchization -- Women's Collaboration and Resistance under Italian Fascism -- Women in Vichy France -- Women and Salazarism -- Liberty and Equality for Women in the Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe, 1960-1980 -- Feminism in the 1970s -- Universal Suffrage and Direct Democracy: The Swiss Case, 1848-1990 -- Women and Islam in the West -- Turkish Immigrant Women in Europe -- The Political Success of Scandinavian Women -- Women's Representation in Parliaments and Political Parties in Europe and North America -- Building Equality in the Policies of International Organizations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Proper Names.

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