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Women Workers in the Second World War
Production and Patriarchy in Conflict
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme …
Out of the Cage
Women's Experiences in Two World Wars
Av Gail Braybon, Penny Summerfield
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars.Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews about …
Women Workers in the First World War
Av Gail Braybon
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Commentators writing soon after the outbreak of the First World War about the classic problems of women’s employment (low pay, lack of career structure, exclusion from "men’s jobs") frequently went on to say that the war had "changed all this", and that women’s position would never be the same …
Women in Nazi Society
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This fascinating book examines the position of women under the Nazis. The National Socialist movement was essentially male-dominated, with a fixed conception of the role women should play in society; while man was the warrior and breadwinner, woman was to be the homemaker and childbearer. The Nazi …
Nazi Organisation of Women
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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The Nazi’s were implacably opposed to feminism and women’s independence. Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics. Nazi ideology saw women in the activist role of 'wives, mothers and home-makers', …
Abortion in England 1900-1967
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of debate over fertility control and its implications …
Women and Work in Pre-industrial England
Av Lindsey Charles, Lorna Duffin
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women’s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was …
Ends of History
Victorians and "the Woman Question"
Inbunden, 2012
2445 kr
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Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"?How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession – the "woman question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians’ fascination with "history" and with the nature of …
Nineteenth-century Woman
Her Cultural and Physical World
Av Sara Delamont, Lorna Duffin
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century.Throughout the book evidence from …
Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and …
Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examining the assumptions that underlay the education and upbringing of middle-class girls, this book is also a study of the learning of gender roles in …
Separate Spheres
The Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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The British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cannot be understood without appreciating the strength and even the contemporary plausibility of ‘the Antis’, as the opponents of women’s suffrage were …
Women in Public, 1850-1900
Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women’s movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian …
Magdalenes
Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century
Av Linda Mahood
Inbunden, 2012
2433 kr
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The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in …
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform
Av Paul McHugh
Inbunden, 2012
2303 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed to protect members of the armed forces (94 per cent of whom were forbidden to marry) from venereal …
Women, Work, and Protest
A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History
Av Ruth Milkman
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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As paid work becomes increasingly central in women’s lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. women’s labor history. Fourteen original essays illuminate the complex …
Death Comes to the Maiden
Sex and Execution 1431-1933
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that 'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they must also have the right to take their seats in government'. This book explores the issues of female emancipation through the history of female execution, from the …
Rise Up, Women!
The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914
Av Andrew Rosen
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women’s Social and Political Union.With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline …
Current Issues in Women's History
Av International Conference on Women's History, Arina Angerman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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This lively collection of essays, originally published in 1989, illustrated recent developments in the area, with chapters by contributors from many different countries and disciplines.Asking new questions and using sources in a challenging way, the contributors reflect 1980s debates about politics …
Eighteenth-century Women
An Anthology
Av Bridget Hill
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, but also on the literature of the …
Fit Work for Women
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This book presents a collection of papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women: not only on women’s wage work, but also on activities either not defined as work or accorded an ambiguous status. It discusses the formation of the …
Leninism, Stalinism, and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1920-1939
Av Sue Bruley
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This book offers a detailed examination of the interaction between socialism and feminism through the lens of one particular socialist organisation, the Communist Party of Great Britain, from its foundation in 1920 until the outbreak of the Second World War. The study of socialism and feminism in …
Give Us Bread but Give Us Roses
Working Women's Consciousness in the United States, 1890 to the First World War
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Rooted in the printed sources of the period, this book reconstructs the attitudes of a pioneer generation of young women to the conflicts brought about by their new experience of employment outside their homes, and to changes in work and family relationships. In the 1890s and after the still …
Women Remember
An Oral History
Av Anne Smith
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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In this fascinating book, originally published in 1989, Anne Smith records interviews with a group of octogenerian women, covering all social classes and a great variety of experience. She allows the women to speak for themselves, bringing to light the submerged history of ordinary women's lives. …
Silent Sisterhood
Middle-class Women in the Victorian Home
Inbunden, 2012
2190 kr
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This perceptive book studies the Victorian woman in the home and in the family. One of the central purposes is to rescue Victorian woman from the realm of myth where her life was spent in frivolous trifles and instead to show how she had a major part to play in the practical management of the home. …
Women in Europe since 1750
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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In dealing with the common experience of women in modern society, this book provides a deeper insight into European women at work, at home, at leisure and in their political and educational functions. Particular emphasis is placed upon the significant cultural differences between women of various …
Woman Movement
Feminism in the United States and England
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This unusual book traces the development of the feminist movement in America and, to a lesser extent, in England. The comparison between the movements is enlightening.Professor O’Neill starts with Mary Wollstonecraft and traces the development of the attack on Victorian institutions right up to the …
Woman of the Eighteenth Century
Her Life, from Birth to Death, Her Love and Her Philosophy in the Worlds of Salon, Shop and Street
Av Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This translation of the French Femme au dix-huitiéme siécle from 1862, first published in English in 1928, traces the life of the Eighteenth Century woman in an historical account. Through discussion of evidence from paintings and memoirs, the book draws an intimate lifelike account of what lay …
Sex and Class in Women's History
Essays from Feminist Studies
Av Judith L. Newton, Mary P. Ryan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2433 kr
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The essays collected in this volume reflect the upsurge of interest in the research and writing of feminist history in the 1970s/80s and illustrate the developments which have taken place – in the types of questions asked, the methodologies employed, and the scope and sophistication of the …
Mary Wollstonecraft
An Annotated Bibliography
Av Janet Todd
Inbunden, 2012
2445 kr
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First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s works and most of the critical and biographical comments on her in English written between 1788 and 1975. It is designed both as a research tool for scholars and students and as a revelation of …
