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.
Gender Relations In German History: Power, Agency And Experience From The Sixteenth To The Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynn Abrams, Elizabeth Harvey
September 26, 1996
This collection of essays examines the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany.; The modes of reinforcement by the state, the church, the law and marriage, and the resistance to these norms by individuals, are central to each of the contributions.; It examines discourses of ...
No Distinction Of Sex?: Women In British Universities, 1870-1939
1st Edition
By Carol Dyhouse
December 01, 1995
In 1939 women represented nearly one quarter of the student population in British universities. Though tantamount to a "social revolution" in the eyes of many contemporaries, the process has recieved scant attention from historians. Whilst prejudice and hostility towards women lingered on in Oxford...
Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction
1st Edition
Edited
By Dr June Purvis
November 01, 1995
Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists ...
Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England
1st Edition
By Bridget Hill
December 16, 1993
The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This study focuses on the household, the most important unit of production in the 18th century. Hill ...