Books in the Women's and Gender History series

This study critically explores the lives of women in Britain during the immediate postwar period 1945-64, and re-examines the current conception of the 1950s as a nadir for women - when the values of domesticity and motherhood were paramount.

This book reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and to the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.

This book reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and to the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces.

This is a detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The focus is placed on the child, and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice.

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 radical Quaker statesman, John Bright.

Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text explores real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life.

The first comprehensive reference work to bring together in one acclaimed volume the wealth of information available on the individuals and organisations involved in the suffrage movement.

A comprehensive study of juvenile delinquency and the moral regulation of children and adolescents in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

A useful source of primary material, this anthology examines a significant number of British women's writings on sex from Victorian times to the 1960s, and studies all aspects of their debates from marriage and lesbianism to prostitution and STDs.

Examines women's role in the army and military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period. This book argues that the women challenged traditional notions of gender and threatened to destabilise clear-cut notions of identity by unsettling the masculine territory of warfare.

Drawing upon research including documentary and archival sources, newsfilm, press coverage of student life and life histories of men and women who graduated before the Second World War, this text provides insights into changes in student identity and experience in Britain. It is for students of gender studies, cultural studies and history.

Analyzes romantic fiction and its depiction of women within its historical context and as part of the history of ideas about women. This volume discusses such areas as: early years - class and wealth; and the twenties - sex and violence.

Examining over 150 years of women's employment history, this student resource considers how class, age, marital status, race and wider economic and political issues have affected women's opportunities and status in the workplace.

Provides a survey of women's suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Divided into thirteen sections, this book gives a geographical dimension to debates on the suffrage campaign of the 19th and early 20th-centuries. It is useful for researchers, scholars, local historians and students.

A reassessment of women's experience of work in 18th-century England, and the effects it had on industrialization and other economic, social and technological changes. It also examines how this influenced marriage and relations between the sexes.

An essential new edition to the study of prostitution in history, providing the reader with an up-to-date account of the social and political efforts to rid it from society.

Examining the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour, this book demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life.

This full-length biography, the first for forty years, draws upon feminist approaches to biography writing to place Christabel Pankhurst within a network of supportive female friendships. It is based upon an unrivalled range of previously untapped primary sources.

This full-length biography, the first for forty years, draws upon feminist approaches to biography writing to place Christabel Pankhurst within a network of supportive female friendships. It is based upon an unrivalled range of previously untapped primary sources.

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. Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women¿s activities and the significance of their contributions. Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of diplomacy and the rise of international politics over the past five centuries.

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. Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women¿s activities and the significance of their contributions. Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of diplomacy and the rise of international politics over the past five centuries.

Women¿s Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They 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 forums such as the United Nations.This book addresses women¿s internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women¿s movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

Women¿s Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They 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 forums such as the United Nations.This book addresses women¿s internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women¿s movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

Provides a re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting perspectives which challenge the existing literature. The book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the 19th century to the postwar period, assessing figures such as: Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing.

An investigation of the lives and experiences of women in the teacher training institutions of the early 20th century. The book provides an overview of the historical context of the development of the colleges, focusing in particular on: Homerton, Avery Hill and Bishop Otter.

A wide-ranging, thematic survey of women's history in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with chapters written by both well-established writers and new and dynamic scholars in a thorough and well-balanced selection.

This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe.