Women's & Gender History Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Children and Empire

   Edited by Cheryl M. Cassidy, Andrea Kaston Tange

   Series: History of Feminism

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse The History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields....

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Women's Activism

   Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present

   Edited by Francisca de Haan, Margaret Allen, June Purvis, Krassimira Daskalova

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   Women’s Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to 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...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Women's Suffrage in Asia

   Gender, Nationalism and Democracy

   Edited by Louise Edwards, Mina Roces

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It explains why...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Women, Sport, Society

   Further Reflections, Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft

   Edited by Roberta Park, Patricia Vertinsky

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   During the last four decades women’s and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes. We have become increasingly aware that women have...

   Published October 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women and Belief, 1852–1928

   Edited by Jessica Cox, Mark Llewellyn, Nadine Muller

   Series: History of Feminism

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse Over recent years, research into religious belief during the Victorian period and the early twentieth century has grown in diversity and importance. The centrality of faith-based discourses to women of the period has long been recognized by scholars in...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Women Workers in the Second World War

   Production and Patriarchy in Conflict

   By Penny Summerfield

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Out of the Cage

   Women's Experiences in Two World Wars

   By Gail Braybon, Penny Summerfield

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars. Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Women Workers in the First World War

    By Gail Braybon

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

    Commentators writing soon after the outbreak of the First World War about the classic problems of women’s employment (low pay, lack of career structure, exclusion from "men’s jobs") frequently went on to say that the war had "changed all this", and that women’s position would never be the same...

    Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge