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Routledge Research in Gender and History


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This series aims to present both case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives on the subject. It is not confined to any particular period or school of thought and seeks to provide a broad coverage of topics and events from around the world.

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Dr. Susan I. Moody's Travels to Iran, 1909-1934 Courageous Odyssey

Dr. Susan I. Moody's Travels to Iran, 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Hoda Mahmoudi
April 02, 2024

This volume examines the life of the remarkable woman, Susan Moody, and her travels to Iran in the early 20th century during seismic changes in the world. Dr. Susan I. Moody’s Travels to Iran 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey captures a fleeting moment of arresting change and shimmering possibility. ...

Women and Family Property

Women and Family Property

1st Edition

Edited By Beatrice Moring
February 01, 2024

This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history. Traditionally the prevailing view has been that women have been disadvantaged in the distribution of property and ...

An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women’s Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters Doing the Lord’s Work in Kenya and South India

An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women’s Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters: Doing the Lord’s Work in Kenya and South India

1st Edition

By Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
December 19, 2023

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth century Methodist missionary work and women’s active expression of faith practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes. The ...

Gender and German Colonialism Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections

Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections

1st Edition

Edited By Elisabeth Krimmer, Chunjie Zhang
December 01, 2023

This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in contemporary racist and sexist ...

Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain, 1919–1945

Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain, 1919–1945

1st Edition

By Bonnie White
November 30, 2023

Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain is the first book-length study of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes’ amateur drama groups, which served as an umbrella organisation for women’s amateur drama. This work addresses a key historical gap by covering the activities, lives, and labour ...

Ida Greaves A Pioneer Development Economist

Ida Greaves: A Pioneer Development Economist

1st Edition

By Barbara Ingham
October 25, 2023

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears. The biography covers her early years in Barbados, her time at ...

History and Legacy of the Suffragette Fellowship Calling all Women!

History and Legacy of the Suffragette Fellowship: Calling all Women!

1st Edition

By Eileen Luscombe
October 20, 2023

History and Legacy of the Suffragette Fellowship provides a biographical account of the scope and depth of the memory work of the now-forgotten commemorative group the Suffragette Fellowship, active from the 1920s to the 1970s. The Suffragette Fellowship comprised members from the militant suffrage...

The Anti-Abortion Campaign in England, 1966-1989

The Anti-Abortion Campaign in England, 1966-1989

1st Edition

By Olivia Dee
September 25, 2023

This book comprises a history of the anti-abortion campaign in England, focusing on the period 1966-1989, which saw the highest concentration of anti-abortion activity during the twentieth century. It examines the tactics deployed by campaigners in their efforts to overturn the 1967 Abortion Act. ...

Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c. 1870–1920

Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c. 1870–1920

1st Edition

By Laura Ugolini
January 09, 2023

This book explores the relationship between middle-class fathers and sons in England between c. 1870 and 1920. We now know that the conventional image of the middle-class paterfamilias of this period as cold and authoritarian is too simplistic, but there is still much to be discovered about ...

Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000

Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000

1st Edition

By W.W.J. Knox
January 09, 2023

This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman’s life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day existence of Scottish women and in doing so covers areas such as family and household, education, work and politics, ...

Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe Women's Periodicals and Salon Culture (1860–1920)

Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe: Women's Periodicals and Salon Culture (1860–1920)

1st Edition

By Christina Bezari
December 30, 2022

This book explores women’s editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnières to engage with foreign cultures, launch the careers of ...

The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer

The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham: Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer

1st Edition

By Maroula Joannou
October 18, 2022

This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875–1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace, and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today. This clearly written and engaging study is based on unpublished primary sources including ...

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