Women Across the Ages: Society, Family and Health

This volume, Women Across the Ages: Society, Family and Health, arises from a shared scholarly interest in enriching our understanding of the past by exploring dimensions of history that have received less attention. While political and institutional narratives have long provided one foundation for historical study, this work engages with the vital, often private, realms of women’s experiences-including family, reproduction, and health. Structured both chronologically and thematically, the volume traces a path from myth to law, from ritual to medicine, and from domestic life to political participation. It illuminates the many ways women have historically expressed agency, less often through open resistance and more commonly through adaptation, negotiation, and endurance within the frameworks of their time. Born of a collaboration that believes a fuller historical synthesis is possible when women’s voices and experiences are included, this volume seeks to intend as a contribution to gender history and as a resource for all scholars exploring the complex social and intellectual dynamics of human history.