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KATALIN G. SZENDE THE OTHER HALF OF THE TOWN: WOMEN IN PRIVATE, PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC LIFE IN TWO TOWNS OF LATE MEDIEVAL WESTERN HUNGARY1 Women, Sources and Historians Although it is obvious that women represented approximately half of late medieval urban population,2 they were hidden behind the walls of chambers and kitchens from the inquiring look of the historians for a long time. As a reaction to this neglect, in the last decades they were brought into the lime- light - even at the expense of impartial treatment. Strongly influenced by the theoretical views of politically motivated Anglo-American feminist movements, historians in the 1960s and 1970s were keen on discovering independent, self-reliant women in the past in as many spheres of life as possible. Nowadays, when the boom of feminist studies seems by no means to decrease, gender-specific aspects become gradually integrated into renewed "traditional" social and economic history.3 1. An earlier version of this article was read at the Third International Conference on Urban History, Budapest, August 1996. I am indebted to Andras Kubinyi, J6zsef Lasz- lovszky and Janos M. Bak for their advice and editorial help. The work was supported by the research support scheme of
East Central Europe – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1993
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