Ute Frevert is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bielefeld. Translated from the German by Stuart McKinnon-Evans, Barbara Norden and Terry Bond.

'... a benchmark for future research. It is a well-written, balanced account which should become standard reading for all those interested in German and in women's history.'European History Quarterly'... ambitious and impressive textbook.'Journal of Women's History

• Contents: Human Rights and Women's Duties in the late 18th Century: Bourgeois Society and Gender -- The 19th Century -- The Discovery of the 'Modern Women' 1914-1933 -- Between Tradition and Modernity: Women in the Third Reich -- Opportunities and Restrictions in the New Republic: 1945-1988 -- Two Hundred Years of Women's History: A Critical Appraisal