Feminism has a long and complex tradition. These four volumes aim to provide a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and discussions to which feminists have contributed in the past 200 years. The works collected here demonstrate the range of feminist engagement and suggest the part that feminists have played in the development of post-Enlightenment thought. They are arranged chronologically in order to give readers a sense of the history of feminism and the ways in which feminism has changed and developed in particular historical contexts.
Feminism has a long and complex tradition. These four volumes aim to provide a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and...
The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises.
Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria s ascendancy to the throne, and featuring journeys spanning France and central Europe, India, and South America, this collection brings together some of the most interesting travel accounts...
The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. The...
This new six-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse brings together key documents from the Victorian feminist campaign to establish and improve girls’ and women’s education. The set is divided into two sections, both of which incorporate materials that argue for the improvement of girls’ and women’s education as well as arguments made against education for girls and women. The first section focuses on the debate surrounding the quality of women’s education and the question of access to higher education for women. This section also brings together documents from the...
This new six-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse brings together key documents from the Victorian feminist campaign to establish a...
Medical Advice for Women is a new five-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse covering professional, scientific, and medical opinion, in addition to the popular guides aimed at the female reader, between the years 1830–1915.
Medical literature from this period provides a fascinating insight into the interrelations between social proscriptions, often validated by appeals to religious authority, and medical prescriptions. The narrative contained within this largely chronological collection is not necessarily a progressive one from quackery to medical and...
Medical Advice for Women is a new five-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse covering professional, scientific, and medical...
Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, the History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women's and gender studies, women's history, and women's writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields. Selected and introduced by an expert editor, the gathered materials are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination.
This new title in the series brings together a unique selection of the multiple feminisms...
Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, the History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, res...
Brings together a diverse range of key texts from across the period 1852-1928 which deal with questions surrounding women's religious belief and sociocultural identity. This work is of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of women's and gender studies, women's history, and women's writing, and those working in allied and related fields.
Brings together a diverse range of key texts from across the period 1852-1928 which deal with questions surrounding women's religious belief and socio...
Especially in recent years, late nineteenth-century novels, short stories, and essays have attracted considerable scholarly interest. Research into texts by and about the New Woman has played a major role in shaping a critical understanding of fin-de-si cle literature, New Journalism, gender politics, activism, work, and education. Serious academic work has, in particular, focused on changing gender roles and women's participation in the public sphere and urban spaces. This new title in the History of Feminism series, co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, is a four-volume collection...
Especially in recent years, late nineteenth-century novels, short stories, and essays have attracted considerable scholarly interest. Research into te...
