Publisher: Yale University Press
This book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of […]
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Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Details women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of World War I. This anthology draws on a range of sources including parliamentary reports, pamphlets, newspapers and journals, novels, poetry and hymns, and seminal texts by activists in the women's movement.
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Publisher: Newmarket Press,U.S.
Part biography, part cultural history, this book evokes America in the thirties and forties while revealing the story of a poor Jewish girl from the Bronx and her encounter with prize and prejudice after becoming Miss America.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The relations between gender and politics in Iran's development over the past 100 years.
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Publisher: Women's Press (CA)
Using sources from women's history, women's studies, and critical social theory, Dr. Lenskyj situates two stories - her own and that of her mother - within the broader Australian socio-cultural context from 1900 to 1960. She presents the background for her mother's narrative, beginning in 1832 when her grandfather arrived in Sydney, […]
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This is an important new study of English women's participation in the market economy from 1300 to 1620.
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