Women's and Gender History

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1. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland

   A Regional Survey

   By Elizabeth Crawford

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women’s suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Divided into thirteen sections covering the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, this book gives a...

   Published May 29th 2008 by Routledge
2. Her Husband was a Woman!

   Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture

   By Alison Oram

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood. Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women...

   Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge
3. Quaker Women

   Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930

   By Sandra Stanley Holton

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   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...

   Published March 29th 2007 by Routledge
4. Women in the British Army

   War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948

   By Lucy Noakes

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period. Providing a unique examination of women’s struggle for...

   Published February 22nd 2006 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Women's History, Britain 1700–1850

   An Introduction

   Edited by Hannah Barker, Elaine Chalus

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   Placing women’s experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and continuity that were encountered by...

   Published August 23rd 2005 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Women and Work in Britain since 1840

   By Gerry Holloway

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography...

   Published July 28th 2005 by Routledge
9. Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913

   The Cotton and Metal Industries in England

   By Carol E. Morgan

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women...

   Published September 5th 2001 by Routledge
10. The Women's Suffrage Movement

    A Reference Guide 1866-1928

    By Elizabeth Crawford

    Series: Women's and Gender History

    This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement. Drawing on national and local archival...

    Published November 22nd 2000 by Routledge