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Women In Protest 1800-1850

by Jennifer Grimmett e Malcolm I. Thomis

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 First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive account of the part played by women â€" mainly working class women â€" in a variety of social and political activities that can broadly be categorised as protest. It establishes the basic outlines and offers an interpretation of the course of events.
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Changing Ideas About Women In The United States, 1776-1825

by Janet Wilson James

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 Written in 1954 and published in 1981, this fascinating study remains authoritative as an account of a body of opinion about women’s nature and role that was in vogue in America during the first half-century after independence. Combining intellectual and social history, this work was one of numerous attempts being made at the time to add depth to American social history dealing with women and women’s experiences before feminism. The author explores British sources of American thought as well, presenting an early comparative history, and offers a focus on religion to show how processes of change to ideas about women occurred.
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Mrs Annie Besant - A Modern Prophet

by Theodore Besterman

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 Having already published a bibliography on Annie Besant, Theodore Besterman in this book continued with the story of her life. She was a prominent British Theosophist, women''s rights activist, writer and orator who lived between 1847 and 1933.Originally published in 1934, this work is fascinating for anyone with an interest in Annie Besant''s life specifically or in any of the areas in which she became a household name.
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Rise Up, Women! - The Militant Campaign Of The Women''S Social And Political Union, 1903-1914

by Andrew Rosen

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 The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Womenâ€™s Social and Political Union.
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Magdalenes - Prostitution In The Nineteenth Century

by Linda Mahood

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 The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex; behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. This book traces and examines approaches emerging throughout the century towards prostitution and looks at the apparatus and institutions created for its control.
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Prostitution And Victorian Social Reform

by Paul Mchugh

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 This book analyses the social composition of the different repeal and reform movements against the Contagious Diseases Acts. This is a fascinating study of ideals and principles in action, of pressure-group strategy, and of individual leaders in the repeal movementâ€™s sixteen year progress.
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Give Us Bread But Give Us Roses - Working Women''S Consciousness In The United States, 1890 To The First World War

by Sarah Eisenstein

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 Rooted in the printed sources of the period, this book reconstructs the attitudes of a pioneer generation of young women to the conflicts brought about by their new experience of employment outside their homes, and to changes in work and family relationships.
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Silent Sisterhood - Middle-Class Women In The Victorian Home

by Patricia Branca

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 This perceptive book studies the Victorian woman in the home and in the family. One of the central purposes is to rescue Victorian woman from the realm of myth where her life was spent in frivolous trifles and instead to show how she had a major part to play in the practical management of the home.
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Women In Europe Since 1750

by Patricia Branca

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 In dealing with the common experience of women in modern society, this book provides a deeper insight into European women at work, at home, at leisure and in their political and educational functions. Particular emphasis is placed upon the significant cultural differences between women of various classes and nationalities.
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Woman Movement - Feminism In The United States And England

by William L. O'Neill

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 This unusual book traces the development of the feminist movement in America and, to a lesser extent, in England. The comparison between the movements is enlightening.
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'Gilded Prostitution' - Status, Money And Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914

by Maureen E. Montgomery

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 This book examines the marriages of British peers to American women within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the growing competitiveness for high social status.
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Women In Public, 1850-1900 - Documents Of The Victorian Women''S Movement

by Patricia Hollis

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 Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent womenâ€™s movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists.
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Women, Work, And Protest - A Century Of U.S. Women''S Labor History

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 As paid work becomes increasingly central in womenâ€™s lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. womenâ€™s labor history.
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Death Comes To The Maiden - Sex And Execution 1431-1933

by Camille Naish

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 In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that 'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they must also have the right to take their seats in government'. This book explores the issues of female emancipation through the history of female execution, from the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 to the events of the French revolution.
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Nazi Organisation Of Women

by Jill Stephenson

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 This book provides a detailed and fascinating picture of the origins, development and functions of the specifically womenâ€™s organisations associated with the NSDAP from their beginnings in the early 1920s, until their demise in 1945.
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Women Remember - An Oral History

by Anne Smith

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 In this fascinating book, originally published in 1989, Anne Smith records interviews with a group of octogenerian women, covering all social classes and a great variety of experience.
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Women In Stuart England And America - A Comparative Study

by Roger Thompson

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 Originally published in 1974, this study offers valuable perspectives on the status and roles of women in Stuart England and in the newly settled colonies of North America, particularly Massachusetts and Virginia. Incorporating both new research on the subject, and the findings of other scholars on demographic and social history, the author examines the effects of sex ratios, economic opportunities, Puritanism and frontier conditions on the emancipation of American women in comparison with their English counterparts. He discusses the effects of these major differences on women’s roles in courtship, marriage and the family, educational, legal and civic opportunities. In the final chapter, he compares the moral climate of the two cultures in the latter part of the seventeenth century.
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Mothers In The Fatherland - Women, The Family And Nazi Politics

by Claudia Koonz

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 From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitlerâ€™s Womenâ€™s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women â€" as followers, victims and resisters â€" in the rise of Nazism.
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Leninism, Stalinism, And The Women'S Movement In Britain, 1920-1939

by Sue Bruley

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 This book offers a detailed examination of the interaction between socialism and feminism through the lens of one particular socialist organisation, the Communist Party of Great Britain, from its foundation in 1920 until the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Fit Work For Women

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 This collection presents papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women. Aiding understanding of the manifestations of womenâ€™s roles today, the author here examines their origins and early development.
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Separate Spheres - The Opposition To Women''S Suffrage In Britain

by Brian Harrison

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 The British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cannot be understood without appreciating the strength and even the contemporary plausibility of ‘the Antis’, as the opponents of women’s suffrage were called.In a fully documented approach which combines political with social history, he unravels the complex politics, medical, diplomatic and social components of the anti-suffrage mind, and clarifies the Antis’ central commitment to the idea of separate but complementary spheres for the two sexes.Dr Harrison then analyses the history of organised anti-suffragism between 1908 and 1918, and argues that anti-suffragism is important for shedding light on the Edwardian feminists. The Antis also introduce us to important Victorian and Edwardian attitudes which are often forgotten and which differ markedly from the attitudes to women which are now familiar; on the other hand, his concluding chapter - which surveys the period from 1918 to 1978 - claims that many of these attitudes, though less frequently voiced in public, still influence present-day conduct. His book, published originally in 1978, therefore makes an important contribution towards the history of the British women’s movement and towards understanding Britain in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.
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Eighteenth-Century Women - An Anthology

by Bridget Hill

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 First published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the eighteenth century. Drawing on newspapers, journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, it also does so on the literature of the period. It examines the role assigned to women in society and explores attitudes of the time and the real experience of women.
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Women And Work In Pre-Industrial England

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 This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of womenâ€™s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985.
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Mary Wollstonecraft - An Annotated Bibliography

by Janet Todd

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 First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraftâ€™s works and most of the critical and biographical comments on her in English written between 1788 and 1975.
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