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Married Women in Legal Practice
Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450
Inbunden, 2019
2588 kr
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This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other …
Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice
Av Jana Byars
Inbunden, 2018
2588 kr
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Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an …
Masculine Modern Woman
Pushing Boundaries in the Swedish Popular Media of the 1920s
Inbunden, 2018
2588 kr
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This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920s—the "masculine" modern woman. Uncovering discourses on female masculinity in interwar Sweden, a nation that struggled to become modern but not decadent, this study examines cultural …
Impact of World War I on Marriages, Divorces, and Gender Relations in Europe
Inbunden, 2019
2198 kr
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How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions as couples? This book focuses on how dramatic changes in living conditions affected key parts of the life course of ordinary citizens: marriage and divorce. Innovative in bringing together demographic and gender …
Women and the Media
Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present
Av Maggie Andrews, Sallie McNamara
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity …
Women and the Reinvention of the Political
Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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This is the first in-depth study of the feminist movement that swept Italy during the "long 1970s" (1968-1983), and one of the first to use a combination of oral history interviews and newly-released archive sources to analyze the origins, themes, practices and impacts of "second-wave" feminism. …
Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, 1648-1920
Av Deborah Simonton, Hannu Salmi
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns to the core, challenging the new world view with dramatic impact. This book concentrates on a period marked by passage …
Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970
International Perspectives
Av E. Lisa Panayotidis, Paul Stortz
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within …
Women in Magazines
Research, Representation, Production and Consumption
Av Rachel Ritchie, Sue Hawkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
764 kr
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Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and …
New Perspectives on European Women's Legal History
Av Sara L. Kimble, Marion Röwekamp
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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This book integrates women’s history and legal studies within the broader context of modern European history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sixteen contributions from fourteen countries explore the ways in which the law contributes to the social construction of gender. They analyze …
Gender and the Representation of Evil
Av Lynne Fallwell, Keira V. Williams
Häftad, 2019
846 kr
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This edited collection examines gendered representations of "evil" in history, the arts, and literature. Scholars often explore the relationships between gender, sex, and violence through theories of inequality, violence against women, and female victimization, but what happens when women are the …
Anti-Abortion Campaign in England, 1966-1989
Av Olivia Dee
Inbunden, 2019
2588 kr
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This book comprises a history of the anti-abortion campaign in England, focusing on the period 1966-1989, which saw the highest concentration of anti-abortion activity during the twentieth century. It examines the tactics deployed by campaigners in their efforts to overturn the 1967 Abortion Act. …
British Women Travellers
Empire and Beyond, 1770-1870
Av Sutapa Dutta
Inbunden, 2019
2588 kr
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This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women’s engagement with Empire and …
Anti-Abortion Campaign in England, 1966-1989
Av Olivia Dee
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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This book comprises a history of the anti-abortion campaign in England, focusing on the period 1966-1989, which saw the highest concentration of anti-abortion activity during the twentieth century. It examines the tactics deployed by campaigners in their efforts to overturn the 1967 Abortion Act. …
Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham
Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer
Inbunden, 2022
2198 kr
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This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875–1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace, and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today. This clearly written and engaging study is based on unpublished primary sources including …
Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham
Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer
Häftad, 2024
688 kr
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This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875–1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace, and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today. This clearly written and engaging study is based on unpublished primary sources including …
Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Av Anna Artwińska, Agnieszka Mrozik
Inbunden, 2020
2588 kr
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Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which …
Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown
Approaches from the History of Emotion
Av Katie Barclay, Jeffrey Meek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2828 kr
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This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding of …
Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c. 1870–1920
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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This book explores the relationship between middle-class fathers and sons in England between c. 1870 and 1920. We now know that the conventional image of the middle-class paterfamilias of this period as cold and authoritarian is too simplistic, but there is still much to be discovered about …
Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Av Anna Artwińska, Agnieszka Mrozik
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which …
Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice
Av Jana Byars
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an …
Revisiting Gender in European History, 1400–1800
Av Elise M. Dermineur, Åsa Karlsson Sjögren m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women’s studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book considers this question in eight new case …
Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Häftad, 2020
735 kr
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Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1945-1948? Which member states did these women represent, and in what ways did they push for a more inclusive language than "the rights of …
Masculine Modern Woman
Pushing Boundaries in the Swedish Popular Media of the 1920s
Häftad, 2020
757 kr
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This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920s—the "masculine" modern woman. Uncovering discourses on female masculinity in interwar Sweden, a nation that struggled to become modern but not decadent, this study examines cultural …
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures
From the Bad to the Blasphemous
Av Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot, the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes …
Gendering Spaces in European Towns, 1500-1914
Av Elaine Chalus, Marjo Kaartinen
Häftad, 2020
652 kr
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Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions. They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and technology, as well as social and spatial …
Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000
Av W.W.J. Knox
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman’s life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day existence of Scottish women and in doing so covers areas such as family and household, education, work and politics, …
Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000
Av W.W.J. Knox
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman’s life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day existence of Scottish women and in doing so covers areas such as family and household, education, work and politics, …
Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c. 1870–1920
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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This book explores the relationship between middle-class fathers and sons in England between c. 1870 and 1920. We now know that the conventional image of the middle-class paterfamilias of this period as cold and authoritarian is too simplistic, but there is still much to be discovered about …
Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash
Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on …
