Using case studies of several European countries, this volume traces the emergence of the conventional association of widowhood with women and studies widowhood as a predominantly female experience from both the male and the female perspectives.

This collection of essays provides a framework within which to understand 18th-century men. The book is divided into four parts looking at: sociability, virtue and friendship, violence, and sexuality.

A vivid account of the changing status of men and masculinity as Britain moved into the modern period reveals the significance of social over sexual conduct for eighteenth century definitions of masculinity, using personal stories and diverse public statements drawn from conduct books, magazines, sermons and novels.

These essays examine the lives of elderly women and attitudes towards them from 1500 to the present. They shed light on the process of industrialisation and welfare provision and question many common assumptions about elderly women.

Part of a series, written for students, academics and interested general readers alike. It tackles themes in gender history from the early medieval period to the present day. This book looks at women, education and social progress between 1790 and 1930.

Looks at the role of gender in explaining the experiences of women and men at work. The text focuses on women's employment in the engineering industries between 1900 and 1950. It challenges the special place given to male dominance in many of the existing accounts of women's work.

Spanning three centuries and four continents, from the late medieval period to the present day, this collection builds a picture of the practical and ideological issues surrounding women soldiers, and the ambiguous place they inhabit, uncovering in the process a remarkable continuity across cultures and periods.

Exploring the diverse violence in Britain in the century between 1850 and 1950, this text includes sections on: everyday violence in the home; the use of violence within groups outside the home; how violence was regulated by the law and other agencies; and how violence was written about.

An introductory survey which provides a clear and accessible account of the centuries between the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest.

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the long eighteenth century . Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up to the non-specialist reader.
The book opens with a substantial...