Women's & Gender History Books

New and Published Books

1. Female Agency in the Urban Economy

   Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830

   Edited by Deborah Simonton, Anne Montenach

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals)

   International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945

   Edited by Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, Hilary Marland

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, 1500 to the Present

   Edited by Sarah Toulalan, Kate Fisher

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Political Worlds of Women

   Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Sarah Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Divorce in Medieval England

   From One to Two Persons in Law

   By Sara M. Butler

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period. Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
6. Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

   By Liubov Denisova

   Edited by Irina Mukhina

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Black Women in New South Literature and Culture

   By Sherita L. Johnson

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Men After War

   Edited by Stephen McVeigh, Nicola Cooper

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the "feminizing" contexts of wounding and desertion, this...

   Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Transgender Studies Reader 2

   Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

   Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge’s The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Women's Studies: The Basics

    By Bonnie G. Smith

    Series: The Basics

    Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women. Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women’s studies and feminism, exploring the global...

    Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge