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"Kathryn Gleadle deals with women's evolving experiences of work, the family, the community and politics amongst all classes, providing the reader with assessments of the key historiographical debates and issues. Particular emphasis is placed upon recent, revisionist research, which draws attention not merely to the role of ideologies and economic circumstances in shaping women's lives, but upon women's own identities and experiences."--Jacket.
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Rowbotham charts the remarkable changes and interchanges in the lives of British and American women over the last 100 years, recording not only the effects of events but also the varied ways that women themselves have shaped this century and changed its course. From the nameless women who marched for the vote, stood on picket lines or refused to ride on segregated buses, to the politicians, poets and film stars whose faces fill our newspapers and...
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Our understanding of the lives and work of women in England before the Victorian period is thin and patchy and women are inevitably less well documented than men, but in spite of this a great deal of evidence does exist about the historical role of women in society and their importance for the economy. This volume provides a systematic analysis of various aspects of women's lives between 1500 and 1800, concentrating on detailed research into specific...
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Beginning with a general introduction that outlines the structure of Tudor society, The Tudor Housewife includes information on religion and marriage, highlighting various religious ceremonies and observances and the arrangement and celebration of marriages; childbirth and raising children, exploring attitudes to childbirth, education, and the religious and moral training of children; household duties, such as washing, cleaning, and preparing food...
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"Setting their novels in the Victorian period, some of the most respected and exciting writers in Britain and America (including Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, Sarah Waters and Angela Carter) have engaged closely with the religious, scientific and literary discourses that attempted to define and imprison women. But in addition, they show through a rich variety of fictional creations how women challenged the power of those discourses,...
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"Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon.
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"Warrior queens, courtly lovers, monstrous sinners, divine goddesses, tortured martyrs, beguiling sorceresses, ecstatic visionaries, victims of rape: these are just a few of the roles women often played in medieval literature, and sometimes in medieval life. In Minding the Body, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt explore the complex relationship between medieval literature and reality, and consider the extent to which legend imitated...
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