Women's and Gender History
About the Book Series
Recent years have witnessed a variety of challenges to the legitimacy of women's history, ranging from the deconstructions of French theory to the advent of 'gender' studies with its post-feminist implications. This series aims to re-establish women's history and to continue to challenge the assumptions of much mainstream history.
The British Women's Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By June Purvis, June Hannam
December 31, 2020
This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain. Although the focus is on Britain, this volume signals how the women’s suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national ...
Engendering Transnational Transgressions: From the Intimate to the Global
1st Edition
Edited
By Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Barbara Molony
November 24, 2020
Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate ...
Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography
1st Edition
By June Purvis
January 08, 2018
Together with her mother, Emmeline, Christabel Pankhurst co-led the single-sex Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903 and soon regarded as the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women. A First Class Honours Graduate in Law, the determined ...
Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945
1st Edition
By Linda Mahood
July 27, 2016
This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, sociology....
Women in Transnational History: Connecting the Local and the Global
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Midgley, Alison Twells, Julie Carlier
May 12, 2016
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women’s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of ...
Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500
1st Edition
Edited
By Glenda Sluga, Carolyn James
June 23, 2015
Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Despite increasing evidence of their involvement in political life across the centuries, the core historical narrative of international ...
Women's Activism: Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Francisca de Haan, Margaret Allen, June Purvis, Krassimira Daskalova
January 11, 2013
Women’s Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women’s organizations, as political leaders, and in global ...
The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Crawford
September 30, 2008
In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women’s suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Divided into thirteen sections covering the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, this book gives a ...
Her Husband was a Woman!: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Alison Oram
January 23, 2008
Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood. Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women ...
Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930
1st Edition
By Sandra Stanley Holton
May 23, 2007
One nineteenth-century commentator noted the ‘public’ character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the ...
Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948
1st Edition
By Lucy Noakes
April 12, 2006
In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period. Providing a unique examination of women’s struggle for ...
Students: A Gendered History
1st Edition
By Carol Dyhouse
January 13, 2006
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain. From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since ...