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Material Masculinities - Men And Goods In Eighteenth-Century England

by Ben Jackson

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 This book explores menâ€™s material culture and consumer behaviour in the rapid social and economic transformations of eighteenth-century England, arguing that men came to rely on their possessions to make sense of their identities during such significant historical changes. -- .
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Teenage Intimacies - Young Women, Sex And Social Life In England, 1950-80

by Hannah Charnock

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 Based upon over 300 personal testimonies, the book traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls of the post-war period, illuminating how matters of romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. In doing so, it reveals the pivotal role that young women played in changing English sexual culture in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. -- .
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Taking Travel Home - The Souvenir Culture Of British Women Tourists, 1750â€“1830

by Emma Gleadhill

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 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 European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. -- .
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Becoming A Mother - An Australian History

by Carla Pascoe Leahy

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 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. -- .
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Teenage Intimacies - Young Women, Sex And Social Life In England, 1950-80

by Hannah Charnock

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 Based upon over 300 personal testimonies, the book traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls of the post-war period, illuminating how matters of romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. In doing so, it reveals the pivotal role that young women played in changing English sexual culture in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. -- .
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Feminist Mental Health Activism In England, C. 1968-95

by Kate Mahoney

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 Feminist mental health activism in England, c.1968-1995 provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England, employing original oral history interviews alongside detailed case studies of unexplored feminist initiatives. It charts how feminist activists in the late 1960s initially rejected psychological approaches, before employing a range of therapies to understand themselves and support one another. This book charts the emergence of feminist mental health groups in the early 1970s, the development of feminist therapy across the 1980s, and the influence of feminist politics on national charity Mind in the 1990s. It examines what participation in feminist activism felt like; demonstrating how these emotions have influenced the construction of its history. The book simultaneously forges a new direction in the history of mental healthcare in postwar England, establishing how feminists grassroots support for women redefined 'community care'.
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Out Of His Mind - Masculinity And Mental Illness In Victorian Britain

by Amy Milne-Smith

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 In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life. -- .
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Becoming A Mother - An Australian History

by Carla Pascoe Leahy

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 Becoming a mother charts the diverse and complex history of Australian mothering for the first time, exposing the ways it has been both connected to and distinct from parallel developments in other industrialised societies. In many respects, the historical context in which Australian women come to motherhood has changed dramatically since 1945. And yet examination of the memories of multiple maternal generations reveals surprising continuities in the emotions and experiences of first-time motherhood. Drawing upon interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, history, psychology and sociology, Carla Pascoe Leahy unpacks this multifaceted rite of passage through more than 60 oral history interviews, demonstrating how maternal memories continue to influence motherhood today. Despite radical shifts in understandings of gender, care and subjectivity, becoming a mother remains one of the most personally and culturally significant moments in a womans life.
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A Woman'S Place? - Challenging Values In 1960s Irish Women'S Magazines

by Ciara Meehan

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 This book explores representations of the domestic in Irish womens magazines. Published in 1960s Ireland, during a period of transformation, they served as modern manuals for navigating everyday life. Traditional themes dating, marriage, and motherhood dominated. But editors also introduced conflicting voices to complicate the narrative. Readers were prompted to reimagine their home life, and traditional values were carefully subverted. The domestic was shown to be a negotiable concept in the coverage of such issues as the body and reproductive rights, working wives and equal pay. Dominant societal perceptions of women were also challenged through the inclusion of those who were on the margins widows, unmarried mothers, and never-married women. This book considers the motivations of editors, the role of readers, and the influence of advertisers in shaping complex debates about women in society in 1960s Ireland.
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Medieval Women And Urban Justice - Commerce, Crime And Community In England, 1300â€“1500

by Teresa (Research Assistant) Phipps

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 This is the first in-depth, comparative study of womenâ€™s access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of womenâ€™s legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life. -- .
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Becoming A Mother - An Australian History

by Carla Pascoe Leahy

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 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. -- .
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Home Economics - Domestic Service And Gender In Urban Southern Africa

by Sacha Hepburn

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 Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of domestic service in southern Africaâ€™s post-colonial cities. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book offers essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africaâ€™s post-colonial and post-apartheid history. -- .
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Distant Sisters - Australasian Women And The International Struggle For The Vote, 1880â€“1914

by James Keating

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 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. -- .
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Taking Travel Home - The Souvenir Culture Of British Women Tourists, 17501830

by Emma Gleadhill

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 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 European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. -- .
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Out Of His Mind - Masculinity And Mental Illness In Victorian Britain

by Amy Milne-Smith

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 In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life. -- .
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Sexual Progressives - Reimagining Intimacy In Scotland, 1880-1914

by Tanya Cheadle

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 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. -- .
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Women, Workplace Protest And Political Identity In England, 1968â€“85

by Jonathan Moss

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 This book revisits womenâ€™s workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class womenâ€™s political identity in England between 1968 and 1985. -- .
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Women Art Workers And The Arts And Crafts Movement

by Zoe Thomas

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 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. -- .
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Women Before The Court - Law And Patriarchy In The Anglo-American World, 1600â€“1800

by Lindsay R. Moore

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 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 womenâ€™s legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the household. -- .
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Women Against Cruelty - Protection Of Animals In Nineteenth-Century Britain: Revised Edition

by Diana Donald

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 This is the first study of womenâ€™s leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .
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Imagining Caribbean Womanhood - Race, Nation And Beauty Competitions, 1929â€“70

by Rochelle Rowe

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 Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .
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Gender, Rhetoric And Regulation - Women'S Work In The Civil Service And The London County Council, 1900â€“55

by Helen Glew

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 Investigates womenâ€™s employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the womenâ€™s movement. -- .
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Home Economics - Domestic Service And Gender In Urban Southern Africa

by Sacha (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) Hepburn

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 Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of domestic service in southern Africaâ€™s post-colonial cities. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book offers essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africaâ€™s post-colonial and post-apartheid history. -- .
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Noblewomen, Aristocracy And Power In The Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm

by Susan M. Johns

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 This is a study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It offers a reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests original ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high Middle Ages.
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