Routledge Library Editions: Women in Society
About the Book Series
This 20-volume set has titles originally published between 1929 and 1991. The books cover a variety of topics that affect women, often adversely, including employment, law and politics. Further titles look at infertility, women’s studies as a discipline; social and public policy; the women’s movement; how women have been viewed, controlled and maligned throughout history. This collection provides insight and perspective into the history of women, attitudes towards them, and how their position has evolved within society.
Women Servants of the State 1870–1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service
1st Edition
By Hilda Martindale
November 20, 2024
Originally published in 1938, Women Servants of the State 1870–1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service tells the story of women as they became an integral part of the Civil Service, work previously reserved for men. As the functions of government widened and the activities of the Civil ...
Women and Sometimes Men
1st Edition
By Florida Scott-Maxwell
November 20, 2024
Originally published in 1957, in Women and Sometimes Men, the author accepts the findings of modern psychology that every man and woman is both masculine and feminine. Her book is about the relationship of these two, both in society and within the individual at the time. She believes that the ...
Women and Symbolic Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill
November 20, 2024
Symbolic interaction explains the world of social behavior and the development of the “self” as a function of social learning. As such, it plays an instrumental role in describing the processes that create women’s everyday lives and also, their gender-specific behaviors. Originally published in ...
Women in the Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Marjorie Mayo
November 20, 2024
Originally published in 1977, this lively collection of papers by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women’s movements and community action at the time, in terms both of the recent developments in women’s thinking and of their practical ...
Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich
1st Edition
By Dale Spender
November 20, 2024
Originally published in 1982, with characteristic energy, humour and learning Dale Spender traces three hundred years of women’s ideas. She uncovers not only the ways and words of women, but the methods of men. While men control knowledge, she argues, they are in a position to take women’s ideas. ...
Women's Issues in Social Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Mavis Maclean, Dulcie Groves
November 20, 2024
During the 1980s a notable development in mainstream social policy in the United Kingdom was the emergence of a feminist critique. Originally published in 1991, Women’s Issues in Social Policy was intended as a contribution to the social policy literature which could also be used in a women’s ...
Women's Lives
1st Edition
By Sue Llewelyn, Kate Osborne
November 20, 2024
What are the patterns dominating women’s lives today? What are the issues which confront women in their relationships, their work, and their families? From adolescence and adult partnerships, through motherhood, to growing old Women’s Lives, originally published in 1990, explores themes which are ...
Women's Partnership in the New World
1st Edition
By Maude Royden
November 20, 2024
First published in 1941, the original blurb read: “Women have been among the worst sufferers not only in war-time but in every ill-organized time of peace. The vast “slave class” on whose backs the great civilizations of the past have been carried has always included them. What is their true share ...
Women, Social Science and Public Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacqueline Goodnow, Carole Pateman
November 20, 2024
Originally published in 1985, Women, Social Science and Public Policy looks at what difference the debate over the position of women had made to the way social scientists worked and thought, or to law and social policies at the time. Debate had been widespread during the 1960s and 1970s and this ...