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 in Higher Education, 1850-1970: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By E. Lisa Panayotidis, Paul Stortz
March 22, 2019
This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within ...
Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production and Consumption
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Ritchie, Sue Hawkins, Nicola Phillips, S. Jay Kleinberg
March 22, 2019
Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and ...
Gender in Urban Europe: Sites of Political Activity and Citizenship, 1750-1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Krista Cowman, Nina Javette Koefoed, Åsa Karlsson Sjögren
August 23, 2018
This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture, courts, government and philanthropic bodies and public spaces, outlining how a particular activity was constituted as political and exploring ...
Gendering the Settler State: White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980
1st Edition
By Kate Law
October 13, 2017
White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of frivolous pastimes, or as casualties of ...
Gender, Power, and Military Occupations: Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine De Matos, Rowena Ward
May 24, 2017
Military occupations and interventions have a gendered impact on both those engaged in occupying, and those whose lands have been occupied. Yet little is known about this gendered impact, in terms of both masculinities and femininities, either historically or in contemporary times. While research ...
The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800- 1900
1st Edition
By Jane McDermid
May 24, 2017
This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of ...
Women, Educational Policy-Making and Administration in England: Authoritative Women Since 1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Joyce Goodman, Sylvia Harrop
May 13, 2016
The role of women in policy-making has been largely neglected in conventional social and political histories. This book opens up this field of study, taking the example of women in education as its focus. It examines the work, attitudes, actions and philosophies of women who played a part in ...
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 ...