Books for Women’s and Gender History Courses

The History of Sexuality in Europe

A Sourcebook and Reader

Edited by Anna Clark

Series: Routledge Readers in History

The History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader is a dynamic introduction to the latest debates in the history of Sexuality in Europe. It begins with an introduction, "The Magnetic Poetry Kit of Sex," that surveys the field of sexuality and introduces the new concept of sexual grammar....

Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge

Women in European Culture and Society

Gender, Skill and Identity from 1700

By Deborah Simonton

A new and major contribution to the field, Women in European Culture and Society is a transnational history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century that pushes women’s history beyond national studies to create an integrated view of three hundred years of women in Europe....

Published December 9th 2010 by Routledge

The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700

Edited by Deborah Simonton

Series: Routledge Histories

The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of women’s role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century. In this collection of essays, leading...

Published June 28th 2007 by Routledge

The Feminist History Reader

Edited by Sue Morgan

Series: Routledge Readers in History

The Feminist History Reader gathers together key articles, from some of the very best writers in the field, that have shaped the dynamic historiography of the past thirty years, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in this dialogue. The Reader is divided into four sections...

Published April 20th 2006 by Routledge

Students: A Gendered History

By Carol Dyhouse

Series: Women's and Gender History

This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain. From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since...

Published December 13th 2005 by Routledge

Outspoken Women

An Anthology of Women's Writing on Sex, 1870–1969

By Lesley A. Hall

Series: Women's and Gender History

Studying a broader period than its contemporaries, this comprehensive study reveals a neglected tradition of British women’s writing from the Victorian era to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Outspoken Women brings together the many and varied non-fictional writings of British women on sexual...

Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge

Women and War in the Twentieth Century

Enlisted with or without Consent

Edited by Nicole A. Dombrowski

Published September 28th 2004 by Routledge

The Lesbian History Sourcebook

Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780–1970

By Alison Oram, Annmarie Turnbull

This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors,...

Published June 20th 2001 by Routledge