Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1928 and 1992, 'Women's History' offers a selection of scholarship covering women's roles, gender battles, feminism and other issues through the ages. Topics include women in the World Wars, prostitution in Victorian times, and the history of abortion.

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.

This text 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.

From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler's Women's Bureau, this text traces the roles played by women - as followers, victims and resisters - in the rise of Nazism.

This text 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.

In the mid-19th century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed to protect members of the armed forces (94 per cent of whom were forbidden to marry) from venereal diseases.

Building on the work of Foucault, Walkowitz, and Mort, Linda Mahood traces and examines new approached emerging throughout the 19th century towards prostitution and looks at the apparatus and institutions created for its regulation and control.

Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women's movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of 19th century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists.

Why were the Victorians so passionate about 'history'? How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession - the 'woman question'? Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with 'history' and with the nature of 'women'.

This text provides a detailed and fascinating picture of the origins, development and functions of the specifically women's organisations associated with the NSDAP from their beginnings in the early 1920s, until their demise in 1945.