Description of the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present. Including documents from across Europe, organized chronologically. Each section includes an interpretive essay analyzing the sources and putting them into context. A part of the sources are translated from the original language into English for the first time. .Table of contents: Part 1: Rights of Man and Duties of Woman. Prelude: Women's identity in Eighteenth-century Culture. 1. Intimate Lives: self, sex and family 2. Community Spaces 3. Wider Worlds: Gendering the Enlightenment Intermezzo: The Revolutionary Era. .Part 2: Domesticity and Industrialism. Prelude: The Legacy of the Enlightenment. 4. Intimate Worlds: Our Mothers' Daughters 5. Community Spaces: Labour, Leisure and Consumption 6. Shaping wider worlds Intermezzo: La Belle Époque or Fin de Siècle? .Part 3: Modern Times Prelude: Carrying Linda’s Stones. 7. Intimacy and Independence 8. The Transitional Community 9. Women Go Public Coda: Gender, skill and Identity.