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Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women

The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War

By Gillian Scott

Based on extensive research, this text provides a critical investigation of the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II.…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-1-85728-798-1 (Routledge)

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Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora

History, Language, and Identity

By Lean'tin Bracks

Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and Mary Prince represent the best of African American women writers who draw on the tortuous legacy of their…

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1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2734-9 (Routledge)

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Flora Tristan

Life Stories

By Susan Grogan

Flora Tristan is best known as a nineteenth century French social critic and reformer. Her writings can be seen as a precursor to Marxism…

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1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04962-7 (Routledge)

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Perpetua's Passion

The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman

By Joyce E. Salisbury

Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91837-4 (Routledge)

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The Men's Share?

Masculinities, Male Support and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920

Edited by Claire Eustance, Prof Angela V John, Angela V. John

The opposition of men to women's suffrage is well-known. However, men's support for women's suffrage is a neglected subject. In the late nineteenth and early…

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1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14001-0 (Routledge)

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Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945

An Introduction

Edited by June Purvis, June Purvis

Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23889-2 (Routledge)

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West End Women

Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962

By Maggie Gale

Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962.
It…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-08496-3 (Routledge)

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Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures

Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

Edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11483-7 (Routledge)

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Fashioning Masculinity

National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century

By Dr Michele Cohen, Michele Cohen

The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-415-10736-5 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia: Divorce and Marriage Law
By Kate O'Shaughnessy
To be published December 18th 2008

Women and Empire, 1750–1939, 5-vol. set: Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism
Edited by Susan K. Martin, Caroline Daley, Elizabeth Dimock, Cheryl Cassidy, Cecily Devereux
To be published January 21st 2009

Sexuality in World History
By Peter N. Stearns
To be published February 27th 2009

Black Women in American Literature of the South
By Sherita L. Johnson
To be published March 15th 2009

The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870
By Alison Kay
To be published March 31st 2009

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