Women's History
Title | Women's History PDF eBook |
Author | June Purvis |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0415238897 |
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 research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the family, education, sexuality, work and politics. Each contribution provides an overview of the main issues and debates within each area and offers suggestions for further reading. It not only provides an invaluable introduction to every aspect of womens participation in the political, social and economic history of Britain, but also brings the reader up to date with current historical thinking on the study of womens history itself.
Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945
Title | Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | June Purvis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 631 |
Release | 2008-01-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135367094 |
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 research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the family, education, sexuality, work and politics. Each contribution provides an overview of the main issues and debates within each area and offers suggestions for further reading. It not only provides an invaluable introduction to every aspect of womens participation in the political, social and economic history of Britain, but also brings the reader up to date with current historical thinking on the study of womens history itself.
Women's History
Title | Women's History PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Barker |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN | 9780415291767 |
A wide-ranging, thematic survey of women's history in Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with chapters written by both well-established writers and new and dynamic scholars in a thorough and well-balanced selection.
Women and Work Culture
Title | Women and Work Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Louise A. Jackson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 381 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351872087 |
Women's work has proved to be an important and lively subject of debate for historians. An earlier focus on the pay, conditions and occupational opportunities of predominantly blue-collar working-class women has now been joined by an interest in other social groups (white-collar workers, clerical workers and professionals) as well as in the cultural practices of the work place, reflecting in part the recent 'cultural turn' in historical methodology. Although the term 'culture' is debated and contested, this volume reflects this diversity, addressing a variety of interpretations. The individual essays address such issues as how women have created occupational and professional identities, negotiated masculine working practices (cultural, legal and institutional) and created their own 'feminine' environments. They also examine the integration of paid work with domestic responsibilities, the concept of 'career' for women, and the construction and representation of women's work within the wider cultural landscape.' By focusing on the experiences of British women between c.1850 and 1950, the collection vividly demonstrates that the association of 'work' with paid labour is problematic and that the categories of 'work', 'leisure' and 'consumption' must be viewed as overlapping and inter-linked rather than as separate entities. Furthermore, it highlights the ways in which the concept of gender operated as an organising principle in the construction and negotiation of identities and practices in British society.
The Aftermath of Suffrage
Title | The Aftermath of Suffrage PDF eBook |
Author | Julie V. Gottlieb |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2013-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137333006 |
This collection explores the aftermath of the Representation of the People Act, which gave some British women the vote. Experts examine the paths taken by both former-suffragists as well as their anti-suffragist adversaries, the practices of suffrage commemoration, and the changing priorities and formations of British feminism in this era.
British Women's History
Title | British Women's History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN | 9780719046520 |
This is one of a series of bibliographical guides designed to meet the needs of undergraduates, postgraduates and their teachers in universities and colleges of further education. All volumes in the series share a number of common characteristics. They are selective, manageable in size, and include those books and articles which are considered most important and useful. All are editied by practising teachers of the subject in question and are based on their experience of the needs of students. The arrangement combines chronological with thematic divisions. Most of the items listed receive some descriptive comment.
Women in Europe Between the Wars
Title | Women in Europe Between the Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Kershaw |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780754656845 |
The central aim of this interdisciplinary book is to make visible the intentionality behind the 'forgetting' of European women's contributions during the period between the two world wars in the context of politics, culture and society. It also seeks to record and analyse women's agency in the construction and reconstruction of Europe and its nation states after the First World War, and thus to articulate ways in which the writing of women's history necessarily entails the rewriting of everyone's history.