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.
Female Agency in the Urban Economy: Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Simonton, Anne Montenach
September 16, 2015
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the ...
Men After War
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen McVeigh, Nicola Cooper
September 16, 2015
This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the "feminizing" contexts of wounding and desertion, this ...
The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Sarah Richardson
September 16, 2015
Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution...
Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo
May 21, 2015
This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or ...
The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914
1st Edition
By Katharina Rowold
December 01, 2014
The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual ...
Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Christopher Fletcher, Philippa Levine, Laura E. Nym Mayhall
April 02, 2014
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered ...
The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Ellen Jordan
February 13, 2014
In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil ...
Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Sharpe
November 24, 2011
Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's ...
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities
1st Edition
Edited
By Antoinette Burton
November 09, 2011
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ...
Women, Accounting and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England
1st Edition
By Rebecca E. Connor
November 09, 2011
In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. However, just as women were seen as financial accountants, they were also deeply associated with the literary and narrative accounting inherent in letters and diaries. These are examined alongside property, ...
Political Women: The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA
1st Edition
By Alana Jeydel
August 16, 2011
Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the ...
Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800)
1st Edition
Edited
By Jutta Sperling, Shona Kelly Wray
July 01, 2011
Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on ...