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.
The Anti-Abortion Campaign in England, 1966-1989
1st Edition
By Olivia Dee
September 25, 2023
This book comprises a history of the anti-abortion campaign in England, focusing on the period 1966-1989, which saw the highest concentration of anti-abortion activity during the twentieth century. It examines the tactics deployed by campaigners in their efforts to overturn the 1967 Abortion Act. ...
Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c. 1870–1920
1st Edition
By Laura Ugolini
January 09, 2023
This book explores the relationship between middle-class fathers and sons in England between c. 1870 and 1920. We now know that the conventional image of the middle-class paterfamilias of this period as cold and authoritarian is too simplistic, but there is still much to be discovered about ...
Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000
1st Edition
By W.W.J. Knox
January 09, 2023
This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman’s life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day existence of Scottish women and in doing so covers areas such as family and household, education, work and politics, ...
Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe: Women's Periodicals and Salon Culture (1860–1920)
1st Edition
By Christina Bezari
December 30, 2022
This book explores women’s editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnières to engage with foreign cultures, launch the careers of ...
Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Artwinska, Agnieszka Mrozik
August 01, 2022
Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which...
Deviant Maternity: Illegitimacy in Wales, c. 1680–1800
1st Edition
By Angela Joy Muir
September 30, 2021
This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources, it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy, and the link between illegitimacy, courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship ...
The Impact of World War I on Marriages, Divorces, and Gender Relations in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Brée, Saskia Hin
August 02, 2021
How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions as couples? This book focuses on how dramatic changes in living conditions affected key parts of the life course of ordinary citizens: marriage and divorce. Innovative in bringing together demographic and gender ...
Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Barclay, Jeffrey Meek, Andrea Thomson
June 30, 2021
This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding of ...
Gendering Spaces in European Towns, 1500-1914
1st Edition
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By Elaine Chalus, Marjo Kaartinen
December 18, 2020
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions. They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and technology, as well as social and spatial ...
The Masculine Modern Woman: Pushing Boundaries in the Swedish Popular Media of the 1920s
1st Edition
By Jenny Ingemarsdotter
September 30, 2020
This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920s—the "masculine" modern woman. Uncovering discourses on female masculinity in interwar Sweden, a nation that struggled to become modern but not decadent, this study examines cultural ...
Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to the Blasphemous
1st Edition
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By Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren, Mark Lipovetsky
September 30, 2020
Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot, the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes ...
Revisiting Gender in European History, 1400–1800
1st Edition
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By Elise M. Dermineur, Åsa Karlsson Sjögren, Virginia Langum
August 14, 2020
Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women’s studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book considers this question in eight new case ...