Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
About the Book Series
Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1928 and 1992, Routledge Library Editions: Women's History offers a selection of scholarship covering women's roles, gender battles, feminism and other issues through the ages. Topics include women in the World Wars, prostitution in Victorian times, the history of abortion, women's roles in the Stuart era and women's place in the household and in work.
Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Milkman
July 03, 2014
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 ...
'Gilded Prostitution': Status, Money and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914
1st Edition
By Maureen E. Montgomery
April 10, 2014
This book examines the marriages of British peers to American women within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the growing competitiveness for high social status. In London, American women were often blamed for the growing hedonism and materialism of smart society and ...
Abortion in England 1900-1967
1st Edition
By Barbara Brookes
April 10, 2014
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...
Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825
1st Edition
By Janet Wilson James
April 10, 2014
Written in 1954 and published in 1981, this fascinating study remains authoritative as an account of a body of opinion about women’s nature and role that was in vogue in America during the first half-century after independence. Combining intellectual and social history, this work was one of ...
Fit Work for Women
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Burman
April 10, 2014
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 ...
Give Us Bread but Give Us Roses: Working Women's Consciousness in the United States, 1890 to the First World War
1st Edition
By Sarah Eisenstein
April 10, 2014
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 ...
Mary Wollstonecraft: An Annotated Bibliography
1st Edition
By Janet Todd
April 10, 2014
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...
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform
1st Edition
By Paul McHugh
April 10, 2014
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 ...
Separate Spheres: The Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain
1st Edition
By Brian Harrison
April 10, 2014
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 ...
Sex and Class in Women's History: Essays from Feminist Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith L. Newton, Mary P. Ryan, Judith R. Walkowitz
April 10, 2014
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 ...
The Edwardian Woman
1st Edition
By Duncan Crow
April 10, 2014
Covering the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War, this entertaining account describes the lives of women in all classes of society: the entertainments they watched, the clothes they wore, their education and the effect it had on women’s ...
The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Linda Mahood
April 10, 2014
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 lakes...