The Emergence of the 'Modern' European Woman

By nancy3639
  • Period: to

    Early Modern Europe

  • "The Witches of Mora"

    "The Witches of Mora"
    "The Witches of Mora", an engraving from Sweden made in 1670. Located in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. The engraving depicts the interrogation and persecution of alleged witches, predominantly women, during the infamous witch hunt of Mora, Sweden 1669.

  • "Lecture de la Tragedie de Voltaire "L'Orphelin de la Chine" Dans le Salon de Mme. Geoffrin en 1755" by Anicet Lemonnier

    "Lecture de la Tragedie de Voltaire "L'Orphelin de la Chine" Dans le Salon de Mme. Geoffrin en 1755" by Anicet Lemonnier
    Oil on canvas, 129.5 cm x 196 cm. Displayed in the Musee National du Chateau de Malmaison, Rueil- Malmaison, France. Anicet Lemonnier's painting depicts a meeting in Mme. Geoffrin's salon in 1755. Mme Geoffrin herself, as well as renouned Enlightenment philosphers Montesquieu and Rousseau are all depicted in the painting, indicating the prestigeous nature of her salon.

  • Prostiution, Considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspect in London and Other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, With Proposals for the Control and Prevention of Attendant Evil, by William Acton

    Prostiution, Considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspect in London and Other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, With Proposals for the Control and Prevention of Attendant Evil, by William Acton
    Published in 1857. Avaliable in original edition, full text format on The Medical Heritage Library Internet Archive. A commentary on the social issue of prostitution, and the plight of the female working class, in industrialized England.

  • Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913)

    Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913)
    The life and death of Emily Davison is celebrated in this memorial edition of "The Suffragette", published on June 13, 1913. "The Suffragette" was a radical publication espousing the ideas of militant suffragists, of which Davison was one.

  • Cover of "Neues Volk"

    Cover of "Neues Volk"
    The cover of "Neues Volk", a publication promoting the German Nazi party's idealization of the "aryan" race. The cover illistration depicts an aryan women nursing her child, therby contributing to the creation of a German aryan 'superrace'.

  • "Worker and Kulkhoz Woman" by Vera Mukhina

    "Worker and Kulkhoz Woman" by Vera Mukhina
    Artist Vera Mukhina's stainless steel, 24.5 meter high sculpture comissioned for exhibition at the 1937 Paris World Fair, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The statue depicts a male worker and kulkhoz woman as equals, holding up the communist symbol of the hammer and sickle, featured on the flag of the Soviet Union from 1923-1991.