Routledge Research in Gender and History

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1. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Ellen Jordan

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

   Edited by Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800- 1900

   By Jane McDermid

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. Gender, Power, and Military Occupations

   Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945

   Edited by Christine De Matos, Rowena Ward

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   Military occupations and interventions have a gendered impact on both those engaged in occupying, and those whose lands have been occupied. Yet little is known about this gendered impact, in terms of both masculinities and femininities, either historically or in contemporary times. While research...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Women, Gender and Labour Migration

   Historical and Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Pamela Sharpe

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Women, Accounting and Narrative

   Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England

   By Rebecca E. Connor

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. However, just as women were seen as financial accountants, they were also deeply associated with the literary and narrative accounting inherent in letters and diaries. These are examined alongside property,...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities

   Edited by Antoinette Burton

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
8. Political Women

   The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA

   By Alana Jeydel

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. Gender, Migration, and the Public Sphere, 1850–2005

   Edited by Marlou Schrover, Eileen Yeo

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   The decision to emigrate has historically held differing promises and costs for women and for men. Exploring theories of difference in labor market participation, network formation and the immigrant organising process, on belonging and diaspora, and a theory of ‘vulnerability,’ A Global History of...

   Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
10. Across the Religious Divide

    Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800)

    Edited by Jutta Sperling, Shona Kelly Wray

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

    Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on...

    Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge