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Gender in History

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Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Modern Motherhood Women and Family in England, 1945–2000 Gender in History Angela Davis Manchester University Press 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...

Trade Paperback : $30.95 Buy	The Business of Everyday Life Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c.1600-1900 Gender in History Beverly Lemire Manchester University Press From 1600 to 1900, a growing consumerism fired the English economy, shaping the priorities of individuals, and determining the allocation of resources within...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Being Boys Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years Gender in History Melanie Tebbutt Manchester University Press This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages A Quiet Revolution Gender in History Simha Goldin Manchester University Press Goldin’s study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France, and England among the Christian...

Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	Women of the Right Spirit Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904-18 Gender in History Krista Cowman Manchester University Press This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union...

Trade Paperback : $26.95 Buy	The Independent Man Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England Gender in History Matthew McCormack Manchester University Press "Independence" was an important ideal for men in Georgian England. In this period, however, the word meant much more than simply the virtues of...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement The Biography of an Insurgent Woman Gender in History Maureen Wright Manchester University Press This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as "the grey matter in...

Trade Paperback : $32.95 Buy	Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France Gender in History Susan Broomhall Manchester University Press Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services, both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health. In this study, Susan Broomhall...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Destined For a Life of Service Defining African-Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938 Gender in History Henrice Altink Manchester University Press Based on a wide range of original sources, including folktales, anthropological studies, court statements, poetry, and speeches, this book sheds new light on...

Trade Paperback : $30.95 Buy	Living in Sin Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-century England Gender in History Ginger S. Frost Manchester University Press Living in Sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples....

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Love, Intimacy and Power Marriage and patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 Gender in History Katie Barclay Manchester University Press Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book...

Trade Paperback : $32.95 Buy	The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115 Gender in History David J. Hay Manchester University Press This is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries...

Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World Shetland 1800-2000 Gender in History Lynn Abrams Manchester University Press The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural...

Trade Paperback : $30.95 Buy	Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy Identities, Families and Masculinities Gender in History Sandra Cavallo Manchester University Press This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early...

Hardcover : $89.95 Buy	Gender and Housing in Soviet Russia Private Life in a Public Space Gender in History Lynne Attwood Manchester University Press This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing...

Trade Paperback : $32.95 Buy	The Shadow of Marriage Singleness in England, 1914-60 Gender in History Katherine Holden Manchester University Press Newly available in paperback, this book examines representations and experiences of men and women who never married between 1914 and 1960, drawing upon an...

Trade Paperback : $33.95 Buy	Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain The Story of Madeleine Smith Gender in History Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair Manchester University Press This book explores the life of Madeleine Smith, who in 1857 was tried for poisoning her secret lover. As well as charting the course of this illicit...

Hardcover : $79.95 Buy	The Feminine Public Sphere Middle-class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870-1914 Gender in History Megan Smitley Manchester University Press At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Victorians and the Virgin Mary Religion and Gender In England 1830-1885 Gender in History Carol Engelhardt Herringer Manchester University Press This book challenges common assumptions about the Virgin Mary, positing a highly controversial figure in place of the traditional model of docile femininity. ...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	Women Police Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century Gender in History Louise A. Jackson Manchester University Press Women Police examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Business of Everyday Life Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c. 1600-1900 Gender in History Beverly Lemire Manchester University Press This book examines the daily practices of men and women in the 17th through 19th centuries to budget succesfully and make ends meet. The author shows the many...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Independent Man Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England Gender in History Matthew McCormack Manchester University Press In Georgian England, independence was associated with manly virtue and physical vigour. Fundamentally, the political world was thought to consist of...

Trade Paperback : $33.95 Buy	Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm Gender in History Susan M. Johns Manchester University Press This is the first study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence...

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