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  • - Shetland 1800-2000
    by Lynn Abrams
    £18.99 - 73.49

    List of tables and figures; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Shetland dialect; Map; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index

  • - The Story of Madeleine Smith
    by Gwyneth Nair & Eleanor Gordon
    £18.99 - 69.49

    Explores the life of Madeleine Smith, who in 1857 was tried for poisoning her secret lover. Charting the course of this illicit relationship and Madeleine's subsequent trial, this title draws on a range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations and the extent of women's social and commercial activities.

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    - Middle-class women and civic life in Scotland, c. 1870-1914
    by Megan Smitley
    £73.49

    This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship.

  • - Private life in a public space
    by Lynne Attwood
    £27.49 - 73.49

    This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. Attwood examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. Much of Attwood's material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables her to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, she also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life. Attwood has produced not just a history of housing, but a social history of daily life which will appeal both to scholars and those with a general interest in Soviet history.

  • - Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929-70
    by Rochelle Rowe
    £23.49

    Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

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    - Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928-64
    by Caitriona Beaumont
    £47.99

    This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women's organisations made to women's lives and to the campaign for women's rights throughout the period 1928-64. -- .

  • - Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
    by Dana Wessell Lightfoot
    £23.49

    Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage -- .

  • - Marriage and patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850
    by Katie Barclay
    £18.99

    This book explores the marital relationships of the Scottish elites, 1650-1850, looking at how they negotiated love, intimacy and power in a patriarchal culture.

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    - Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
    by Ginger Frost
    £73.49

    Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. 'Common-law' marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet did not meet its most basic requirements. The majority of those who lived in irregular unions did so because they could not marry legally. Others chose not to marry, from indifference, from class differences, or because they dissented from marriage for philosophical reasons. This book looks at each motivation in turn, highlighting class, gender and generational differences, as well as the reactions of wider kin and community. Frost shows how these couples slowly widened the definition of legal marriage, preparing the way for the more substantial changes of the twentieth century, making this a valuable resource for all those interested in Gender and Social History.

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    - Defining African-Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938
    by Henrice Altink
    £73.49

    This study of the construction of black womanhood in Jamaica between 1865 and 1938 sheds new light on the struggle for full and equal citizenship of people of African descent in the post-emancipation British Caribbean. -- .

  • - Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years
    by Melanie Tebbutt
    £23.49 - 73.49

    Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth. -- .

  • by Susan Broomhall
    £18.99

    Situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. -- .

  • - A Quiet Revolution
    by Simha Goldin
    £23.49 - 73.49

    Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages. -- .

  • - Women and Family in England, 1945-2000
    by Angela Davis
    £18.99

    This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. -- .

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    - Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (Wspu), 1904-18
    by Krista Cowman
    £13.99

    The first study of how a group of diverse women spread, built and sustained a national network of branches supporting the militant suffrage campaign in Britain in the years before the First World War -- .

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