collection "beaux livres", Ouest-France éd. 2005, hardback w - Lot 712

collection "beaux livres", Ouest-France éd. 2005, hardback with dust jacket - 25.8 x 19.3 cm. By Rosine Lagier: "IL Y A UN SIECLE... LA FEMME". 140 pages recounting the emancipation of young girls and women from all walks of life, from the point of view of both their families and society, from the 1880s to the end of the First World War. Enriched with hundreds of illustrations: photos, advertisements, period postcards, newspapers of the time... education and instruction of the girl child, secondary education, the student, marriage, the home, women in agriculture, working at home, domestic education, women in industry, textiles, trade, manual labor, medicine, pharmacy, state jobs, the birth rate, the abandonment of breastfeeding, prostitution, alcoholism, strikes, feminism, women in sport, literature, the arts, the corset, the hair fair, fashion and its evolution...