The Fourth Estate

A History of Women in the Middle Ages

By Shulamith Shahar

Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and...

Published April 17th 2003 by Routledge.

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A History of European Women's Work

1700 to the Present

By Deborah Simonton

The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's...

Published August 13th 1998 by 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...

Published November 27th 1997 by 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 documents...

Published November 21st 1996 by Routledge.

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Women and Religion in England

1500-1720

By Patricia Crawford

Patricia Crawford demonstrates how the consideration of gender is central to our understanding of religious history. Women and Religion has three broad themes: the role...

Published September 19th 1996 by Routledge.

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London's Women Teachers

Gender, Class and Feminism, 1870-1930

By Dina Copelman

Dina Copelman's investigation of the public and private lives of women teachers reveals a strikingly different model of gender and class identity than the orthodox...

Published May 30th 1996 by Routledge.

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Poor Women and Children in the European Past

Edited by John Henderson, Richard Wall

Women and children have always featured prominently among the critically disadvantaged. They have been the persistently dominant clientele of welfare agencies.
This original collection provides...

Published November 10th 1994 by Routledge.

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Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France 1944-68

By Claire Duchen

Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France explores the everyday experiences of women between the liberation, and May 1968. In 1945, French women believed that...

Published April 28th 1994 by Routledge.

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We Are But Women

Women in Ireland's History

By Dr Roger Sawyer, Roger Sawyer

We Are But Women sets the history of Irish women in the context of the broad sweep of Irish history, dealing even-handedly with the diverse...

Published October 21st 1993 by Routledge.

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Memories of Revolution

Russian Women Remember

Edited by Anna Horsbrugh-Porter

Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the Revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and...

Published September 2nd 1993 by Routledge.

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