This essential student resource is the first of its kind to study this period. Working chronologically from the early 1840s up to the end of the twentieth century, it examines over 150 years of women's employment history and the struggles they have faced. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected...
This essential student resource is the first of its kind to study this period. Working chronologically from the early 1840s up to the end of the twent...
One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the future radical Quaker statesman, John Bright.
The lives discussed here cover a period from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and include several women Friends active in radical politics and the women's movement, in the service of which they were able to mobilise...
One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such...
Placing women s experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and continuity that were encountered by women of this time.
A thorough and well-balanced selection of individual chapters by leading field experts and dynamic new scholars, combine original research with a discussion of current secondary literature, and the contributors examine areas as diverse as the Enlightenment, politics,...
Placing women s experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transfo...
This volume provides a wide-ranging, thematic survey of women's history in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Chapters written by both well-established writers and new and dynamic scholars are presented in a thorough and well-balanced selection. Topics covered include women's roles in and experiences of politics, religion, consumption, crime, and many other areas. This overview of women in the eighteenth century is essential reading for any student of women's history.
This volume provides a wide-ranging, thematic survey of women's history in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Chapters written ...
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since the 1970s the proportion of women students in universities in the UK has continued to rise so that female undergraduates now outnumber their male counterparts.
Drawing upon wide-ranging original research including documentary and archival sources, newsfilm, press...
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since the 1970s the proportion of women students in universities in the UK has continued to rise so that female undergraduates now outnumber their male counterparts.
Drawing upon wide-ranging original research including documentary and archival sources, newsfilm, press...
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women's suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Through a study of the grass roots activists involved in the movement, Crawford provides a counter to studies that have focused on the politics and personalities that dominated at a national level, and reveals that, far from providing merely passive backing to the cause, women in the regions were engaged in the movement as active participants. Attempts to involve women of all classes at a local level were...
In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women's suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing...
In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period.
Providing a unique examination of women s struggle for acceptance by the British army, Noakes argues that women in uniform during the first half of the twentieth century challenged traditional notions of gender and threatened to destabilise clear-cut notions of identity by unsettling the masculine territory of warfare. Noakes also examines the tensions that...
In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First an...
In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period.
Providing a unique examination of women's struggle for acceptance by the British army, Noakes argues that women in uniform during the first half of the twentieth century challenged traditional notions of gender and threatened to destabilise clear-cut notions of identity by unsettling the masculine territory of warfare. Noakes also examines the tensions...
In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First an...
This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement.
Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries and more than 800 entries on societies in England, Scotland and Wales. Easily accessible and rigorously cross-referenced, this invaluable resource covers not only the political developments of the campaign but provides insight...
This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only compre...
