This new anthology brings together excerpts from over one hundred documents detailing women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of World War I. It looks in detail at all aspects of life for women in Britain in this period, including motherhood, marriage and domestic life; religion, philanthropy and politics; work; education; the migration of Irish, Jewish and Black and Asian women to Britain; women in the Empire; and early feminism. This documentary history draws on a wide range of sources including parliamentary reports, pamphlets, newspapers and journals,...
This new anthology brings together excerpts from over one hundred documents detailing women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outb...
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popula...
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities.
The book is divided into three thematically-organised parts, covering gendered histories of transnational networks, women s agency in the intersecting histories of imperialisms and nationalisms, and the concept of localizing the global and globalizing the local. Discussing...
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women s history, exploring how cross-border connections and glo...
