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…
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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…
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 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 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 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 *
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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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
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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'I know which side I'm on' Southern women in the labor movement in the twentieth century
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'Where I was a person' The Ladies' Auxiliary in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes 1
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Another look at the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Women, industry structure and collective action
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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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Bread before roses American workingmen, labor unions and the family wage
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Labor organizing and female institution-building The Chicago Women's Trade Union League, 1904-24
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Survival strategies among African—American women workers A continuing process 1
Volume 2. The New Woman and Female Independence
This volume places the controversy on marriage and motherhood in the context of the New Woman debate. While the three debates were linked, each had…
Volume 5. Literary Degenerates
This volume brings together the voices of female New Woman writers and late Victorian literary criticism. The contemporary debate on New Woman fiction formed part…
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
Volume 4. New Woman Fiction (2) Gender and Sexuality
The Story of an African Farm (1883) heralded the advent of New Woman fiction eleven years before the New Woman was named. An immediate bestseller,…
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.…
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
Volume 3. Letters 1845-1855
The period marked by Harriet Martineau’s shift from confinement on the ‘prone-couch’ of her second-storey Tynemouth sickroom to ranging across the peaks of Lake District…
Volume 4. Letters 1856-1862
Harriet Martineau’s return from London in winter 1855, after her diagnosis with heart disease, marked the end of a decade of remarkable physical vigour: from…
Volume 5. Letters 1863-1876
The American Civil War was in full swing by 1863; and, with her niece Maria efficiently arranging every aspect of her life, Harriet Martineau devoted…
Politics and Society The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885–1913
Louisa Mary, Lady Knightley of Fawnsley, was a woman of unusually wide interests, especially in the field of public affairs. In an age when few…
Volume 2. Selected Letters
Sarah Grand was born Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke on 10 June 1854, at Donaghadee in County Down, Ireland. At that time her father, a naval…
Volume 3. Éire abú?
‘Éire abú’ was the sentiment if not the catch cry of a majority of those whose writings and drawings appear in this volume. To affix…
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Volume 4. India
In 1912, Sarojini Naidu, Indian poetess, political activist, first governor of the state of Uttar Pradesh, as well as wife, mother, orator, and envoy, published…
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Volume IV. Press Work in Fiction and in Fact
This volume considers the extent to which women’s involvement in journalism has been depicted in both fictional and factual print spaces. The texts in this…
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A Boss, A Respected Proprietor, and a Whipping Boy Horn Miss Massey Linked the Three
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A Dream Trousseau Which Miss Massey Ordered
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A Way Out Which Miss Massey Discovered
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Hanged at the Yardarm Which Penalty Miss Massey Suffered
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Honors are Easy Between Miss Massey and Mr. Thompson
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In Chy Fong's Restaurant Where Miss Massey Meets a Missionary
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Some Japanese Prints Which Miss Massey Admired
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That List of Bassett's Which Miss Massey Published
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The Act of a Thug Which Miss Massey Committed
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The Ex-City Editors' Club And Horn Miss Massey Became Eligible for Membership
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The Fascination of Fan-Tan Wherein Miss Massey Scents Graft in chinatown
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The Legion of Honor Which Miss Massey Earned
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The Pencil Will And Miss Mussey's Unofficial Connection with It
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The Pollexfen Story In winch Mus Massey Aimed to Beat Mr . Thompson
