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Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London
Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830
Häftad, 1999
1282 kr
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This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole, its policing systems and its attitudes towards …
Women in British Public Life, 1914 - 50
Gender, Power and Social Policy
Av Helen Jones
Häftad, 2000
892 kr
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An examination of the ways in which women challenged the British educational, employment and welfare systems after the franchise. Helen Jones explores how women adapted their strategies to confront the system from within, and what constraints were imposed on them. She also examines the active role …
Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930
A Study in Continuity Through Change
Av Anna Hillyar, Jane Mcdermid
Häftad, 1998
547 kr
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This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women's working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In the process the authors reveal how the stereotypical portrayal of Russian women's work as a struggle of …
Gender, Power and the Unitarians
Av Ruth Watts
Häftad, 1998
866 kr
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This new study explores the role the Unitarians played in female emancipation. Many leading figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were Unitarian, or were heavily influenced by Unitarian ideas, including: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Florence …
Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany
Essays by Merry E. Wiesner
Häftad, 1997
1186 kr
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This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work. The final chapter, specially written for this volume addresses three fundamental …
Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy
Av Judith C. Brown, Robert C. Davis
Häftad, 1998
1222 kr
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This major new collection of essays by leading scholars of Renaissance Italy transforms many of our existing notions about Renaissance politics, economy, social life, religion, medicine, and art. All the essays are founded on original archival research and examine questions within a wide …
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948
Choices and Constraints
Häftad, 1999
847 kr
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This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War, the liberation, and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines women's every-day lives and the role they played in both collaboration and resistance. The author not …
Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204
Power, Patronage and Ideology
Av Barbara Hill
Häftad, 1999
892 kr
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This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the death of the emperor Basil II in 1025 to the sacking of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders in 1204, spanning the rise and fall of the successful Komnenos dynasty. …
Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750
Life and work in the London household
Av Tim Meldrum
Häftad, 2000
1282 kr
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In this exciting new study Tim Meldrum explores the "real lives" of domestic servants. From close examination of court records and other documentary evidence, he has reconstructed the lives of ordinary domestic servants in London. A revealing account of life below the stairs, the gendered nature of …
Masculinity in Medieval Europe
Av Dawn Hadley
Häftad, 1998
892 kr
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An original and highly accessible collection of essays which is based on a huge range of historical sources to reveal the realities of mens' lives in the Middle Ages. It covers an impressive geographical range - including essays on Italy, France, Germany and Byzantium - and will span the entire …
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Av Sandra Cavallo, Lyndan Warner
Häftad, 1999
892 kr
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This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of …
English Masculinities, 1660-1800
Av Tim Hitchcock, Michelle Cohen
Häftad, 1999
892 kr
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This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the …
Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800
Häftad, 2000
952 kr
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This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman. From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on …
Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500
Häftad, 2001
892 kr
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Women have always made up the majority of older people: this examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the period 1500 to the present reveals attitudes towards the ageing process. It sheds light on household structures as well as wider issues - including the history of the family, the …
Medieval Memories
Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300
Häftad, 2001
967 kr
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Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle …
History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800
Av Mary O'Dowd
Häftad, 2004
847 kr
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The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English …
Practical Visionaries
Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930
Häftad, 2000
892 kr
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An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Previous scholarship has either neglected the …
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Essays on Gender, Family and Empire
Av John Tosh
Häftad, 2004
847 kr
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In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999), …
Blood, Bodies and Families
Häftad, 2004
847 kr
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This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been …
More than Munitions
Women, Work and the Engineering Industries, 1900-1950
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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Clare Wightman explores the key issue of gender in explaining the experience of men and women at work. She uses women's employment in the engineering industries between 1900 and 1950 to confront many of the contentious debates in women's history. She shows that the two World Wars did not produce …
Soldier and a Woman
Av Gerard J.De Groot, C Peniston-Bird
Häftad, 2000
1027 kr
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The question of women's role in the military is extremely topical. A Woman and a Soldier covers the experiences of women in the military from the late mediaeval period to the present day. Written in two volumes this comprehensive guide covers a wide range of wars: The Thirty Years War, the French …
Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950
Gender and Class
Häftad, 2000
892 kr
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The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts. 'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide). 'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence …
Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe
1500 - 1700
Av Penny Richards, Jessica Munns
Häftad, 2003
1057 kr
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Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe.Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, …
Masculinity in Medieval Europe
Av Dawn Hadley
Inbunden, 2016
2599 kr
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An original and highly accessible collection of essays which is based on a huge range of historical sources to reveal the realities of mens' lives in the Middle Ages. It covers an impressive geographical range - including essays on Italy, France, Germany and Byzantium - and will span the entire …
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948
Choices and Constraints
Inbunden, 2016
2599 kr
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This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the …
English Masculinities, 1660-1800
Av Tim Hitchcock, Michelle Cohen
Inbunden, 2016
3172 kr
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This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the …
Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800
Av New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter, Philip (Research Editor
Inbunden, 2016
2599 kr
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This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman.From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on …
Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860
Av Ruth Watts
Inbunden, 2016
2524 kr
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This new study explores the role the Unitarians played in female emancipation. Many leading figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were Unitarian, or were heavily influenced by Unitarian ideas, including: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Florence …
Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204
Power, Patronage and Ideology
Av Barbara Hill
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the death of the emperor Basil II in 1025 to the sacking of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders in 1204, spanning the rise and fall of the successful Komnenos dynasty. …
Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950
Gender and Class
Inbunden, 2017
2586 kr
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The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts. 'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide). 'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence …
