Bücher der Reihe Gender in History

This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. Considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. Asserts the importance of the life-cycle in determining the power of aristocratic women. Demonstrates that the influence of gender on lordship was profound, complex and varied.

Home economics provides an innovative, comparative history of domestic service in southern Africa's post-colonial cities. Foregrounding labour relations in black households and the women and girl workers who predominated in these spaces, it provides new insights into the nature of gender, work and urban economies across the region. -- .

Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships. -- .

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship. It argues for the souvenir as a significant site of contestation over the legitimacy of the male and female experience of travel. -- .

Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and international spheres of influence. -- .

Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressive thought and behaviour in fin de siecle Britain. -- .

This book revisits women's workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity in England between 1968 and 1985. -- .

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .

The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements. -- .

Women Police is the first in-depth historical study of women's involvement in uniform, plain-clothes and undercover policing in the UK. Topics covered include the regulation of prostitution, sexual violence, child abuse and neglect. T -- .

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global interconnectivities within and across national divides. -- .

Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, and surveying a vast range of contemporary sources,this is the first account in English of the entire, 40-year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. -- .

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women's legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the household. -- .

An account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on Nest of Deheubarth

Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. -- .

A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century. -- .

"This is the first attempt to recover the entirety of women's contribution to British museums in the period 1850-1914. It sheds lights on women as museum workers, donors and visitors, demonstrates that through such roles women profoundly influenced the development of museums in the period and suggests that museums were a key site for the development of modern gendered identities"--Back cover.

Uses court records to re-evaluate women's economic roles in early modern Scotland. -- .

Investigates women's employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women's movement. -- .

This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings -- .

The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland -- .

The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought. -- .

Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages. -- .

Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth. -- .

This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. -- .

Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage -- .

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women's organisations made to women's lives and to the campaign for women's rights throughout the period 1928-64. -- .