A Woman’s Work is Never Done? Women and Leisure in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond
The modern idea of leisure – free time in which to do what one wishes – has not always been the way the word has…
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Feminism and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
The literature of 1776–1928 inevitably reflects a wide range of responses to women’s experiences, especially of home and family. Marriage is the key theme of…
Feminism and Women’s Work, 1776–1928
This article surveys the emergence of work as a key priority for feminism, as it developed from early roots in the late eighteenth century, through…
Notable Figures in Nineteenth-Century Feminism
This essay argues that feminist gains in the nineteenth century were frequently driven by the leadership of notable figures, men as well as women. Beginning…
Poverty, Prostitution, Prisons, and Politics: Women and Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century
One of the most basic divisions in the study and practice of criminal justice is gender. Modern prisons are separated by biological sex just as…
Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts
The Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866, 1869) were introduced in order to combat the high incidence of sexually transmitted disease in the British Army and…
Sexuality (1880–1928)
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was vibrant debate among feminists about the way in which male and female sexual behaviour was…
The Campaign for Women’s Suffrage in Britain
This essay gives an overview of the campaign for the parliamentary vote for women in Britain from 1865 to 1928, focussing in particular on the…
The Victorian New Woman
In looking at the British New Woman of the late nineteenth century, this essay explores the complex and vibrant history of the cultural figure and…
Women and Science
This essay provides an overview of women and science, both as practitioners and subjects of scientific enquiry, from the late eighteenth century through to the…
Women and Victorian Spiritualism
This article examines the powerful position that female spiritualist practitioners acquired in the spiritualist movement, and its association with the Women’s Rights Movement. Woman-centred spiritualism…
Women and the Church, 1776–1928
Britain’s diverse religious cultures shaped women’s lives and identities from the cradle to the grave in the long nineteenth century. For some, religion provided support,…
Women, Charity, and Philanthropy in the Long Nineteenth Century
Charity and philanthropy were one of the central means by which women in the long nineteenth century (1776–1928) participated in the making of civil society.…
Women’s Movement’s and Ideologies in the long 19th Century
Individual calls for increased social, economic and political rights for women grew from the eighteenth century, with a distinct women’s movement identifiable from the mid-nineteenth…
Women in Higher Education, 1850–1970 International Perspectives
This edited collection illustrates how women’s lived experiences in academe could be diverse but in some ways historically and culturally similar. It looks at both…
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"Feverish Frolics of the Frivolous Frosh" Women's Cultures of Initiation in Western Canadian Universities, 1915–1935
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"Honorary Men" and Incidental Students Women in Post-World War II American Higher Education, 1945–1970
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Becoming Undergraduates Women and University Culture in Nineteenth-Century Canada
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From Happy Homes to Contaminating Cloisters Women's University Communities in Interwar Britain
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Imperial Ideals Women in Scotland's Universities and the British Empire
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Intellectual Women, Social Science, and Political Power Municipal Feminism and Reform at the London School of Economics, 1895 to 1960
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Journeys Toward a Gentleman's Education International Fellowships and Bryn Mawr College Students, 1900–1930
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Korerotia Mo Nga Paake Māori Women Educators Speak
Volume 5. Black Feminist Organizing
Defense of Black Womanhood: A Black Woman of the South, “Letter from a Black Woman,” New National Era 11 April 1872., “The Social Status of…
Sex and Class in Women's History Essays from Feminist Studies
The essays collected in this volume reflect the upsurge of interest in the research and writing of feminist history in the 1970s/80s and illustrate the…
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"The Men Are as Bad as Their Masters..." Socialism, Feminism and Sexual Antagonism in the London Tailoring Trade in the 1830s *
Volume 1. Jessie Fothergill, Kith and Kin (1881)
From Jessie Fothergill’s 1881 novel, Kith and Kin, the quote above describes the ascent of one Judith Conisbrough, New Woman extraordinaire. She is surmounting the…
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Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country A Reassessment
Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de…
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'Don't Cry – It ain't that Kind of a Story' Wharton's Business of Fiction, 1908–12
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'It's Better to Watch' Compulsive Voyeurism in The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth
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'Lost in Translation' Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country
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A 'Mist of Opopanax' Mapping the Scentscape of The Custom of the Country
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Crude Ascending the Staircase Undine Spragg and the Armory Show
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Girls from the Provinces Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg
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The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton's Conversation with the Atlantic Monthly
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When the Reading Had to Stop Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country
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Worst Parents Ever Cultures of Childhood in The Custom of the Country
Volume 4. The Politics of (non) Romance
It is a curious fact that any investigation of suffrage fiction will lead to the observation that the novels written in the thick of the…
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Chapter I A Riverside Bungalow
Chapter II Woman’s Rights
Chapter III Among the Bulrushes
Chapter IV Light Moments
Chapter IX An Untoward Meeting
Chapter V An Unfortunate Bill
Chapter VI The End of the Dream
Chapter VII A Sorrowful Awakening
Chapter VIII The Pretty Sally
Chapter X Lady Blanche’s Strange Request
Chapter XI An Awkward Predicament
Chapter XII How the Situation is Accepted
Chapter XIII Dust and Ashes
Chapter XIV Mowbray Pays A Call
Chapter XIX Tea at the Carlton
Chapter XV Gipsie in Holloway
Chapter XVI Some Sympathy and a Story
Chapter XVII A Lecture on Woman’s Suffrage
Chapter XVIII A Favour from the Gods
Chapter XX Lady Dalny Puts a Pertinent Question
Chapter XXI The March of the Suffragettes
Chapter XXII The Storming of The Houses of Parliament
Chapter XXIII The New Bill and the Old
Chapter XXIV Retrospection
Chapter XXIX A Sublime Act of Atonement
Chapter XXV Lady Blanche Hears Some News
Chapter XXVI Norton Makes a Proposal
Chapter XXVII No Votes for Women, and a Farewell
Chapter XXVIII An Accident and Its Consequences
Chapter XXX Love the Conqueror
Women, Work and Protest A century of US women's labor history
As paid work becomes increasingly central in women’s lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best…
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'Where I was a person' The Ladies' Auxiliary in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes 1
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Bread and Roses revisited Women's culture and working-class activism in the Lawrence strike of 1912 1
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Labor organizing and female institution-building The Chicago Women's Trade Union League, 1904-24
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Problems of coalition-building Women and trade unions in the 1920s
Volume 4. Medical Advice for Women 1830–1915
Medical Gynecology, (New York and London: D. Appleton and Company. [with one hundred and sixty-three illustrations for the most part by Max Broedel and A.…
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body 1500 to the Present
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present…
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Fairy Tales of Fertility Bodies, sex and the life cycle, c. 1750–2000
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Knowledge and Experience From 1750 to the 1960s
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Looking at Sex Pornography and erotica since 1750
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Medical Understandings of the Body 1750 to the present
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‘The Roots that Clutch’ Bodies, sex and race since 1750
Volume 1. Letters 1819-1837
Relatively little is known about Harriet Martineau’s early years, particularly her intellectual influences prior to 1820 and her literary apprenticeship during the 1820s. Other than…
Women and Work in Britain since 1840
The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of…
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Equal or different? Divisive issues in the industrial women’s movement
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Out of the cage? Women’s experience of work during the First World War
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Women organizing Trade unions and other industrial organizations
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Women’s work since the 1840s Continuity and change
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‘Fit work for women’ Working-class women and paid work in the mid-nineteenth century
