Books in the Routledge Research in Gender and History series

This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law.

The volume offers an exploration of communism in Central and Eastern Europe through the prism of generation and gender. Both concepts are used as analytical categories to study Europe's past and present. The book is comprised of methodological approaches and interdisciplinary case studies.

This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875-1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today.

This edited volume explores the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950. Their pioneering work is considered, as well as their endeavors to bridge the gap between the avant-garde and mass culture.

The volume offers an exploration of communism in Central and Eastern Europe through the prism of generation and gender. Both concepts are used as analytical categories to study Europe's past and present. The book is comprised of methodological approaches and interdisciplinary case studies.

Ellen Jordan's treatment of the expansion of middle-class women's work is perhaps the most comprehensive available and is a valuable complement to existing works on the social and economic history of women.

Offers a comparative study of constructions of female nature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on debates surrounding women's entry into higher education, this book explores how gender difference was negotiated in Britain, Germany and Spain.

This book analyses the conditions under which the U.S. women's movement gained access to and response from Congress and the presidency during the battle for women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Between 1850 and 1914 the Victorian concept of gender was under construction. Social and sexual stability was expected to provide a foundation for national identity. This book analyzes the interrelation of gender and class with national identity, offering a study of girls' schooling in Britain and Ireland.

This book introduces women into the history of world fairs through a dialogue across disciplinary and national historiographies that challenges existing narratives. It shows the ways women engaged in these modern spaces, as artists, writers, collectors, philanthropists, workers or feminists at a moment when feminist movements were developing.

How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions as couples? This edited volume asks how patterns of marriage and divorce were affected by the war across Europe, and what the role of change, or a lack of enduring change, in gender relations was in shaping these patterns.

This book asks how the new history of emotion has transformed our understanding of marriage across time and space. It goes beyond a history of personal feeling to the ways that emotions in marriage have social, political and economic implications.

This volume examines the travels of British women across continents and imperial contexts from 1770-1870, in order to understand the representation of identity, race, gender, and class in the Empire and beyond.

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 patriarchy, constrained by male actions and gendered ideologies. This book, which places itself amongst other "new imperial histories", argues that the reality of the situation, is of course, much more intricate and complex. Focusing on post-war colonial Rhodesia, Gendering the Settler State provides a fine-grained analysis of the role(s) of white women in the colonial enterprise, arguing that they held ambiguous and inconsistent views on a variety of issues including liberalism, gender, race and colonialism.

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 appearance. In the decades that followed, feminist scholars criticized such publications as at best conservative and at worst regressive in their treatment of gender norms and ideals. However, this perspective obscures the heterogeneity of the magazine industry itself and womenΓÇÖs experiences of it, both as readers and as journalists. This collection explores such diversity, highlighting the differing and at times contradictory images and understandings of women in a range of magazines and womenΓÇÖs contributions to magazines in a number of contexts from late nineteenth century publications to twenty-first century titles in Britain, North America, continental Europe and Australia.