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 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Rebecca Adami
August 06, 2020
Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1945-1948? Which member states did these women represent, and in what ways did they push for a more inclusive language than "the rights of ...
Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice
1st Edition
By Jana Byars
June 30, 2020
Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an ...
Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920
1st Edition
By Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
December 10, 2019
Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on ...
Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876�1937
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Rogers, Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
December 10, 2019
This book argues for the importance of bringing women and gender more directly into the dynamic field of exposition studies. Reclaiming women for the history of world fairs (1876-1937), it also seeks to introduce new voices into these studies, dialoguing across disciplinary and national ...
Women, Land Rights and Rural Development: How Much Land Does a Woman Need?
1st Edition
By Esther Kingston-Mann
December 10, 2019
The failure to include gender in the economic history of rural development has severely limited our understanding of privatizing, collectivist and colonial economic policies that disrupted and transformed the lives of rural women and men in the modern world. This book is unique in its focus on ...
Married Women in Legal Practice: Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-1450
1st Edition
By Charlotte Cederbom
September 04, 2019
This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other ...
British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond, 1770-1870
1st Edition
Edited
By Sutapa Dutta
August 29, 2019
This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women’s engagement with Empire and ...
Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, 1648-1920
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Simonton, Hannu Salmi
May 23, 2019
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns to the core, challenging the new world view with dramatic impact. This book concentrates on a period marked by passage ...
Women and the Media: Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Maggie Andrews, Sallie McNamara
May 23, 2019
The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity...
Women and the Reinvention of the Political: Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983
1st Edition
By Maud Anne Bracke
May 23, 2019
This is the first in-depth study of the feminist movement that swept Italy during the "long 1970s" (1968-1983), and one of the first to use a combination of oral history interviews and newly-released archive sources to analyze the origins, themes, practices and impacts of "second-wave" feminism. ...
Gender and the Representation of Evil
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynne Fallwell, Keira V. Williams
March 22, 2019
This edited collection examines gendered representations of "evil" in history, the arts, and literature. Scholars often explore the relationships between gender, sex, and violence through theories of inequality, violence against women, and female victimization, but what happens when women are the ...
New Perspectives on European Women's Legal History
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara L. Kimble, Marion Röwekamp
March 22, 2019
This book integrates women’s history and legal studies within the broader context of modern European history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sixteen contributions from fourteen countries explore the ways in which the law contributes to the social construction of gender. They analyze...