Routledge Research in Gender and History
About the Book Series
This series aims to present both case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives on the subject. It is not confined to any particular period or school of thought and seeks to provide a broad coverage of topics and events from around the world.
Women and Family Property
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatrice Moring
August 29, 2025
This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history. Traditionally the prevailing view has been that women have been disadvantaged in the distribution of property and ...
Feminism, UK Women’s Magazines and the Women who Created Them, 1975-1992: Glossy Cover or Cultural Shift?
1st Edition
By Sharon Maxwell Magnus
June 29, 2025
This book analyses how reproductive rights and sexual freedoms, the political sphere, women’s role in the workplace and sexual violence were positioned and depicted by three magazines with very different demographics: Spare Rib, Cosmopolitan and Woman’s Own. The 1970s and 1980s were a time of ...
An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women’s Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters: Doing the Lord’s Work in Kenya and South India
1st Edition
By Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
May 05, 2025
This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth century Methodist missionary work and women’s active expression of faith practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes. The ...
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabeth Krimmer, Chunjie Zhang
May 05, 2025
This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in contemporary racist and sexist ...
Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain, 1919–1945
1st Edition
By Bonnie White
May 05, 2025
Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain is the first book-length study of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes’ amateur drama groups, which served as an umbrella organisation for women’s amateur drama. This work addresses a key historical gap by covering the activities, lives, and labour ...
History and Legacy of the Suffragette Fellowship: Calling all Women!
1st Edition
By Eileen Luscombe
January 30, 2025
History and Legacy of the Suffragette Fellowship provides a biographical account of the scope and depth of the memory work of the now-forgotten commemorative group the Suffragette Fellowship, active from the 1920s to the 1970s. The Suffragette Fellowship comprised members from the militant suffrage...
Oral Histories of Tibetan Women: Whispers from the Roof of the World
1st Edition
By Lily Xiao Hong Lee
October 07, 2024
Through the translated stories of twenty Tibetan women of various backgrounds, ages and occupations who were alive in the twentieth century, this book presents broad, under-explored and engaging perspectives on Tibetan culture and politics, ethnicity or mixed ethnicity, art, marriage, religion, ...
Histories of Sex Work Around the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Phipps
August 07, 2024
This book offers snapshots of sex work in global history, examining how it has differed in different places around the world at different points in time. Focusing on certain moments in certain places and examinations of historical lives, it offers a diverse approach with a heavy focus on lived ...
Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900–1950
1st Edition
Edited
By María Cristina C. Mabrey, Leticia Pérez Alonso
May 27, 2024
The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950, an important period that signified the rise and consolidation of media technologies. Their pioneering work as film stars, writers, ...
The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham: Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer
1st Edition
By Maroula Joannou
May 27, 2024
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 ...
Women in the French Enlightenment: From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family
1st Edition
By Anna Maria Marchini
May 27, 2024
This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law. Alongside the ...
Dr. Susan I. Moody's Travels to Iran, 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey
1st Edition
By Hoda Mahmoudi
April 02, 2024
This volume examines the life of the remarkable woman, Susan Moody, and her travels to Iran in the early 20th century during seismic changes in the world. Dr. Susan I. Moody’s Travels to Iran 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey captures a fleeting moment of arresting change and shimmering possibility. ...