Women And Men In History
Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204: Power, Patronage and Ideology
1st Edition
By Barbara Hill
August 04, 1999
This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the death of the emperor Basil II in 1025 to the sacking of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders in 1204, spanning the rise and fall of the successful Komnenos dynasty. ...
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Sandra Cavallo, Lyndan Warner
July 27, 1999
This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of ...
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948: Choices and Constraints
1st Edition
By Hanna Diamond
July 26, 1999
This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the...
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830
1st Edition
By Tony Henderson
May 17, 1999
This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole, its policing systems and its attitudes towards ...
English Masculinities, 1660-1800
1st Edition
By Tim Hitchcock, Michelle Cohen
April 21, 1999
This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the ...
More than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Industries, 1900-1950
1st Edition
By Clare Wightman
April 06, 1999
Clare Wightman explores the key issue of gender in explaining the experience of men and women at work. She uses women's employment in the engineering industries between 1900 and 1950 to confront many of the contentious debates in women's history. She shows that the two World Wars did not produce ...
Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A Foyster
March 02, 1999
This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely ...
Masculinity in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Dawn Hadley
November 30, 1998
An original and highly accessible collection of essays which is based on a huge range of historical sources to reveal the realities of mens' lives in the Middle Ages. It covers an impressive geographical range - including essays on Italy, France, Germany and Byzantium - and will span the entire ...
Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860
1st Edition
By Ruth Watts
October 26, 1998
This new study explores the role the Unitarians played in female emancipation. Many leading figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were Unitarian, or were heavily influenced by Unitarian ideas, including: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Florence ...
Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy
1st Edition
By Judith C. Brown, Robert C. Davis
April 17, 1998
This major new collection of essays by leading scholars of Renaissance Italy transforms many of our existing notions about Renaissance politics, economy, social life, religion, medicine, and art. All the essays are founded on original archival research and examine questions within a wide ...
Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930: A Study in Continuity Through Change
1st Edition
By Jane Mcdermid, Anna Hillyar
March 20, 1998
This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women's working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In the process the authors reveal how the stereotypical portrayal of Russian women's work as a struggle of...
Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany: Essays by Merry E. Wiesner
1st Edition
By Merry E. Wiesner
October 01, 1997
This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work. The final chapter, specially written for this volume addresses three fundamental ...