The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal

Deborah Gorham

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examinin... Lees meer

The Woman of the Eighteenth Century

Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• This translation of the French Femme au dix-huitiéme siécle from 1862, first published in English in 1928, traces the life of the Eighteenth Century w... Lees meer

Sex and Class in Women's History

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• The essays collected in this volume reflect the upsurge of interest in the research and writing of feminist history in the 1970s/80s and illustrate th... Lees meer

Women Remember

Anne Smith

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• In this fascinating book, originally published in 1989, Anne Smith records interviews with a group of octogenerian women, covering all social classes ... Lees meer

Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Carol Dyhouse

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using... Lees meer

Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform

Paul McHugh

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• In the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and det... Lees meer

Rise Up, Women!

Andrew Rosen

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable orga... Lees meer

Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of schola... Lees meer

Women Workers in the First World War

Gail Braybon

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• This book looks at how and why women were employed, and in what ways society’s attitudes towards women workers did or did not change during the war. Lees meer

Silent Sisterhood

Patricia Branca

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• This perceptive book studies the Victorian woman in the home and in the family. One of the central purposes is to rescue Victorian woman from the real... Lees meer

The Nineteenth-century Woman

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studi... Lees meer

Eighteenth-century Women

Bridget Hill

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible... Lees meer

Leninism, Stalinism, and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1920-1939

Sue Bruley

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• This book offers a detailed examination of the interaction between socialism and feminism through the lens of one particular socialist organisation, t... Lees meer

Mary Wollstonecraft

Janet Todd

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft's works and most of the critical and biographi... Lees meer

Mrs Annie Besant

Theodore Besterman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Having already published a bibliography on Annie Besant, Theodore Besterman in this book continued with the story of her life. She was a prominent Bri... Lees meer

Separate Spheres

Brian Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• The British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cann... Lees meer

Women in Public, 1850-1900

Patricia Hollis

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women’s movement during the years 1850-1900, ... Lees meer

Current Issues in Women's History

International Conference on Women's History

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• This lively collection of essays, originally published in 1989, illustrated recent developments in the area, with chapters by contributors from many d... Lees meer

Mothers in the Fatherland

Claudia Koonz

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by ... Lees meer

The Woman Movement

William L. (Rutgers University, NJ, USA) O'Neill

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• This unusual book traces the development of the feminist movement in America and, to a lesser extent, in England. The comparison between the movements... Lees meer

The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal

Deborah Gorham

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examinin... Lees meer

Mary Wollstonecraft

Janet Todd

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s works and most of the critical and biographi... Lees meer

The Magdalenes

Linda Mahood

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History | nr. 25
• The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had a... Lees meer

The Edwardian Woman

Duncan Crow

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Covering the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War, this entertaining account describes the lives ... Lees meer