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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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Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900–1950

Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900–1950

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Edited By María Cristina C. Mabrey, Leticia Pérez Alonso
May 27, 2024

The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950, an important period that signified the rise and consolidation of media technologies. Their pioneering work as film stars, writers, ...

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

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By Maroula Joannou
May 27, 2024

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 This clearly written and engaging study is based on unpublished primary sources including ...

Women in the French Enlightenment From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family

Women in the French Enlightenment: From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family

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By Anna Maria Marchini
May 27, 2024

This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law. Alongside the ...

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

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

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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 ...

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