Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 242
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4422-5738-2 • Hardback • April 2018 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-4422-5739-9 • Paperback • April 2018 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
978-1-4422-5740-5 • eBook • April 2018 • $47.50 • (£37.00)
Maria Bucur is John V. Hill Professor of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1: Introduction: A Feminist History of the World since 1900
2: Politics
3: Population
4: Economics
5: Knowledge
6: Culture
7: Kinship: Into the Future
Epilogue
Bibliographic Essay
Selected Bibliography
. . . . an impressive and concise piece of work that will prove useful to researchers and accessible to students studying gender in the twentieth century and beyond. Bucur’s narrative is simple but subversive: women are everywhere in history and our impact on the world is undeniable.
— European History Quarterly
Maria Bucur’s ambitious volume is a global history of the twentieth century with women at its center. Weaving together a tremendous amount of material from every region of the world, The Century of Women: How Women Have Transformed the World since 1900 breaks ground on many fronts. . . . The Century of Women is a major achievement. . . . keeping this sweeping global history to fewer than two hundred pages of text was a remarkable feat.
— American Historical Review
Maria Bucur’s brilliant book not only challenges the masculine bias in popular history, it provides an essential international perspective on one of the most significant of social revolutions of our time: the global women’s movement. Her informed and uplifting work should be required reading for anyone disheartened by the growth of contemporary misogyny. Bucur reminds us that things can change despite the resistance of the most reactionary political opponents.
— Kristen R. Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania
Maria Bucur’s bold, brave, broad-ranging, subversively feminist yet inevitably selective world history of women’s agency from 1900 to the present will provoke discussion and debate. This woman-focused interpretation should find a place on every intelligent person’s reading list.
— Karen Offen, Stanford University
The Century of Women is an energetic and fact-filled survey showing in detail women's many accomplishments over these decades but also presenting solid evidence of the many wrongs still to be righted.
— Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University
Encyclopedic in scope and bold in its conception, The Century of Women sets out to show that the changes of the twentieth century ‘can be fully grasped only by analyzing how women have been both the subject and object of these major shifts, from an unprecedented set of new rights to new cultural norms, and overall greater agency as a category of humans.’ The Century of Women succeeds admirably. It is a book every woman will want to read. Indeed, it is a book whose time has come!
— Sonya Michel, University of Maryland, College Park
Offers a thematic, comparative approach to gender history.
Provides broad quantitative data and rich case studies.
Includes mini-biographies of prominent women from around the world.