Studies in Gender History – serie
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13 produkter
Early Feminists
Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement, 1831-51
Häftad, 1998
1683 kr
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This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian Feminist movement began in the 1850s, this book, by bringing to light a wealth of unused sources, demonstrates that a vibrant community existed during …
Women in the Chartist Movement
Inbunden, 1991
1683 kr
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Towards the end of the 1830s, large numbers of British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter in order to improve their living conditions through universal suffrage. Women's wide-ranging support of Chartism encompassed everything from extensive lecturing tours to domestic …
Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany
Women’s Reproductive Rights and Duties
Inbunden, 1992
1683 kr
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This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women's emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws. Its enlightened policy of family planning and liberalised abortion laws offered women a new measure of control …
Work, Gender and Family in Victorian England
Av Karl Ittmann
Inbunden, 1994
1124 kr
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`What a pleasure to see this pathbreaking research in print! Karl Ittmann's analysis of Bradford pushes forward our knowledge of the quiet revolution in social habits which took place in the late nineteenth century. In particular, his ability to link the decline of marital fertility with the …
Early Feminists
Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement, 1831-51
Inbunden, 1995
1683 kr
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This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian Feminist movement began in the 1850s, this book, by bringing to light a wealth of unused sources, demonstrates that a vibrant community existed during …
Adapting to Capitalism
Working Women in the English Economy, 1700–1850
Inbunden, 1996
1634 kr
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Considering patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850, industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and marriage and family life sheds light on contemporary debates in history such as the sexual division of labour, controversy over continuity or change in women's …
Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940
Av K. Boyd
Inbunden, 2002
1256 kr
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In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form …
Purity and Pollution
Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine
Av A. Bashford
Inbunden, 1998
1124 kr
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Like medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, nineteenth-century …
Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany
Women’s Reproductive Rights and Duties
Häftad, 1992
1692 kr
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This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women's emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws. Its enlightened policy of family planning and liberalised abortion laws offered women a new measure of control …
Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement
The Weston Sisters
Av Clare Taylor
Häftad, 1995
625 kr
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British and American anti-slavery societies were established in the 1820s and 1830s and from an early date included women campaigners. Typical of female abolitionists, the Weston sisters wrote, collected monies and signatures for petitions but rarely spoke in public or advocated a peculiarly …
Adapting to Capitalism
Working Women in the English Economy, 1700–1850
Häftad, 1996
1692 kr
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This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex, material on the worsted industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and marriage and family life will shed light on contemporary debates in history such as the sexual …
Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
Häftad, 1996
569 kr
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As the first in-depth study of women's experience of work in Scotland before 1800, this book draws on a wide variety of hitherto unexplored sources to throw light on the everyday working activities of women, married and single, successful and deprived, and their role in the urban community. While …
Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940
Av K. Boyd
Häftad, 2002
1262 kr
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In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form …
