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Modern motherhood
Women and family in England, 1945–2000
Av Angela Davis
Häftad, 2014
382 kr
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Winner of the Women’s History Network Book Prize, 2013This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in …
Women's medical work in early modern France
Häftad, 2011
371 kr
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Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services, both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health. In this study, Susan Broomhall situates the practices and perceptions of women’s medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution …
Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. Considers …
Masculinities in politics and war
Gendering modern history
Av Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
374 kr
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Politics and war are crucial to the history of masculinity, yet have been neglected in the emergent historiography of masculinity. This book opens up new avenues in gender history by mapping masculinity’s part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing welfare states. …
Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World
Shetland 1800–2000
Av Lynn Abrams
Inbunden, 2005
1263 kr
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Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in …
Myth and materiality in a woman’s world
Shetland 1800–2000
Av Lynn Abrams
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural imagination for 200 years. Here, women were numerically preponderant and economically vital. They maintained families and communities …
Being Boys
Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years
Inbunden, 2012
1156 kr
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This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being Boys challenges many stereotypes about their behaviour. It offers new perspectives on familiar and important themes in interwar social and …
Being Boys
Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years
Häftad, 2014
382 kr
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This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being boys challenges many stereotypes about their behaviour. It offers new perspectives on familiar and important themes in inter-war social and …
Women of the right spirit
Paid organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904–18
Häftad, 2011
209 kr
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This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. Whilst the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing circle of women, centred around the …
independent man
Citizenship and gender politics in Georgian England
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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‘Independence’ was an important ideal for men in Georgian England. In this period, however, the word meant much more than simply the virtues of self-sufficiency and impartiality. Most people believed that obligations absolutely compromised freedom and conscience, whereas ‘independence’ was …
business of everyday life
Gender, practice and social politics in England, c.1600–1900
Häftad, 2012
371 kr
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From 1600 to 1900 a growing consumerism fired the English economy, shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the allocation of resources within families. Everyday business might mean making a trip to the pawnbroker, giving a loan to a trusted friend of selling off a coat, all to make …
Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046–1115
Av David Hay
Inbunden, 2008
1263 kr
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This is the first account in English of the entire, 40-year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defence of the reforming papacy, defeated the Holy …
military leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046–1115
Av David Hay
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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This is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defense of the reforming papacy, defeated the Holy …
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy
Identities, Families and Masculinities
Inbunden, 2007
1166 kr
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This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber-surgeons and the apparently distant …
Living in Sin
Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England
Av Ginger Frost
Inbunden, 2008
1156 kr
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Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet did …
Women and the Shaping of British Methodism
Persistent Preachers, 1807–1907
Inbunden, 2010
1227 kr
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A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century.The author covers women preachers in Wesley’s lifetime, the reason why some …
Feminine Public Sphere
Middle–Class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870–1914
Inbunden, 2009
1156 kr
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At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as citizens.This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public …
Murder and morality in Victorian Britain
The story of Madeleine Smith
Av Eleanor Gordon, Gwyneth Nair
Häftad, 2009
394 kr
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This book explores the life of Madeleine Smith, who in 1857 was tried for poisoning her secret lover. As well as charting the course of this illicit relationship and Madeleine’s subsequent trial, the authors draw on a wide range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations and …
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement
The Biography of an Insurgent Woman
Inbunden, 2011
1202 kr
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This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement. A pacifist, humanitarian ‘free-thinker’, Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character …
Women and Museums, 1850–1914
Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge
Av Kate Hill
Inbunden, 2016
1263 kr
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This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of …
Gender and Housing in Soviet Russia
Private Life in a Public Space
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. Ultimately, it …
Artisans of the body in early modern Italy
Identities, families and masculinities
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber-surgeons and the apparently distant …
Modern women on trial
Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper
Av Lucy Bland
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual …
Queen and Country
Same–Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939–45
Av Emma Vickers
Inbunden, 2013
1263 kr
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The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally …
Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
A Quiet Revolution
Av Simha Goldin
Inbunden, 2011
1263 kr
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Goldin’s study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France and England among the Christian population over a period of some 350 years. Looking at original Hebrew sources to conduct a social analysis, he takes us from the middle of the …
Living in sin
Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
Av Ginger Frost
Häftad, 2011
374 kr
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Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet did …
Infidel Feminism
Secularism, Religion and Women's Emancipation, England 1830–1914
Inbunden, 2013
1227 kr
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Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or …
Housewives and Citizens
Domesticity and the Women’s Movement in England, 1928–64
Inbunden, 2013
810 kr
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This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64. The book challenges existing histories of the women’s movement that suggest the movement went into …
Women, Travel and Identity
Journeys by Rail and Sea, 1870–1940
Inbunden, 2013
1156 kr
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The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a 'golden age' of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous with chic, splendour and luxury. …
Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland
Av Sarah Browne
Inbunden, 2014
1132 kr
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This is the first book-length account of the women's liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social movement of the post-1945 period. In doing so, it reveals the inventiveness and fearlessness of …
