Women and Men in History
This series, designed for students, scholars and interested readers alike, tackles themes in gender history from the early medieval period through to the modern day. Gender issues are now an integral part of all history courses and yet many traditional textbooks do not reflect this change. Much exciting work is now being done to redress the gender imbalances of the past, and these books make their own substantial contribution to that process.
Below are the titles in this series.
A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800
Mary O'Dowd
Paperback, Nov 2004ISBN13: 9780582404298
ISBN10: 0582404290
The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives...
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Essays on Gender, Family and EmpireJohn Tosh
Paperback, Nov 2004ISBN13: 9780582404496
ISBN10: 0582404495
In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. Manliness and Masculinities brings together nine key...
Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England
Patricia Crawford
Paperback, Aug 2004ISBN13: 9780582405134
ISBN10: 0582405130
This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses w...
Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe
1500 - 1700Penny Richards, Jessica Munns
Paperback, May 2003ISBN13: 9780582423299
ISBN10: 0582423295
Organized into four sections, Courtly Worlds, Religious Experience, Civic Worlds, and Literature and Gender, this original collection provides a contemporary map with which to understand...
Medieval Memories
Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300Elisabeth Van Houts
Paperback, Feb 2001ISBN13: 9780582369023
ISBN10: 0582369029
Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did men and women preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or...
Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500
Lynn Botelho, Pat Thane
Paperback, Jan 2001ISBN13: 9780582329027
ISBN10: 0582329027
Women have always made up the majority of older people: this examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the period 1500 to the present reveals attitudes towards the ageing process....
Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950
Gender and ClassShani D'Cruze
Paperback, Nov 2000ISBN13: 9780582419070
ISBN10: 0582419077
This collection looks at the historical experience of violence, and at the ways in which it has been used as a means of gaining power in social relations. It examines how violent behaviour has been us...
Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800
Philip Carter
Paperback, Oct 2000ISBN13: 9780582319875
ISBN10: 0582319870
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 mascu...
Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750
Life and work in the London householdTim Meldrum
Paperback, Aug 2000ISBN13: 9780582312081
ISBN10: 0582312086
A revealing account of life below the stairs, based on close examination of court records and other documentary evidence, this book explores the gendered nature of domestic service, and...
A Soldier and a Woman
Gerard J. De Groot, C. Peniston-Bird
Paperback, Jun 2000ISBN13: 9780582414389
ISBN10: 0582414385
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 soldier...
Women in British Public Life, 1914 - 50
Gender, Power and Social PolicyHelen Jones
Paperback, May 2000ISBN13: 9780582277311
ISBN10: 0582277310
An examination of the ways in which women challenged the British educational, employment and welfare systems after the franchise. Helen Jones explores how women adapted their strategies to confro...
Practical Visionaries
Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930Pam Hirsch, Mary Hilton
Paperback, Feb 2000ISBN13: 9780582404311
ISBN10: 0582404312
An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leader...
Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204
Power, Patronage and IdeologyBarbara Hill
Paperback, Aug 1999ISBN13: 9780582303522
ISBN10: 0582303524
A consideration of the role of the imperial women of Byzantium in the period of the Crusades, Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204 addresses the important question of why w...
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948
Choices and ConstraintsHanna Diamond
Paperback, Jul 1999ISBN13: 9780582299092
ISBN10: 0582299098
This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War, the liberation, and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines w...
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sandra Cavallo, Lyndan Warner
Paperback, Jul 1999ISBN13: 9780582317482
ISBN10: 0582317487
This book brings together innovative research on widows and widowers in medieval and early modern Europe. The introductory chapter by the Editors explores the conditions and constructions of widowh...
