Writing women into European history directly confronts a number of ideas about what constitutes Europe, how its history is written and how this history relates to the emerging meta-narratives of global or world history. The Routledge History of Women in Modern Europe is a landmark publication that provides a coherent overview of women's role and place in Western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century.
In this collection of essays, leading women's historians counter the notion of "national" histories and provide the insight and perspective of a European approach. Important intellectual, political and economic developments have not respected national boundaries, nor has the story of women's past, or the interplay of gender and culture.