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  • - Gender, Race And National Identity, 1945-1964
    af Wendy Webster
    193,95 - 1.589,95 kr.

    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.

  • - National and International Perspectives
    af June (University of the West of England Hannam
    449,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

  • - Connecting the Local and the Global
    af Julie Carlier
    485,95 - 1.711,95 kr.

  • - From the Intimate to the Global
     
    449,95 kr.

    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.

  • - From the Intimate to the Global
     
    1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Louise A. Jackson
    478,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780-1930
    af Sandra Stanley Holton
    547,95 - 1.647,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
    af UK) Oram & Alison (Leeds Metropolitan University
    480,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Reference Guide 1866-1928
    af Elizabeth Crawford
    1.235,95 - 2.512,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Linda Mahood
    547,95 - 1.405,95 kr.

    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.

  • - An Anthology of Women's Writing on Sex, 1870-1969
    af London, UK) Hall & Lesley A. (Wellcome Institute
    505,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • - War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948
    af UK) Noakes & Lucy (Portsmouth University
    478,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • af UK) Dyhouse & Carol (University of Sussex
    505,95 - 1.480,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Jay Dixon
    505,95 - 1.786,95 kr.

    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.

  • af UK) Holloway & Gerry (University of Sussex
    505,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Regional Survey
    af Elizabeth Crawford
    588,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Bridget Hill
    480,95 - 1.650,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914
    af UK) Bartley, Paula Bartley & Paula (University of Wolverhampton
    588,95 - 1.464,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Cotton and Metal Industries in England
    af Carol E. Morgan
    478,95 - 1.466,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Power, Agency And Experience From The Sixteenth To The Twentieth Century
     
    1.650,95 kr.

  • - A Biography
    af June (University of Portsmouth Purvis
    477,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Biography
    af June (University of Portsmouth Purvis
    1.589,95 kr.

    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.

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    485,95 kr.

    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.

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    1.466,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present
     
    1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present
     
    473,95 kr.

    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.

  •  
    1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Culture of Femininity
    af Elizabeth Edwards
    480,95 kr.

    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.

  • - An Introduction
     
    1.464,95 kr.

    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.

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    1.587,95 kr.

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

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