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This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment... more | FREE shipping go to store |
A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Studies in English Language Gender Shifts in the History of English (Paperback) Based on extensive research Anne Curzan s study makes a major contribution by providing historical perspective on controversial questions regarding the continuing evolution of gender definition. How and why did grammatical gender gradually disappear... more | FREE shipping go to store |
A history of the remarkable partnership forged between the author of such classics as Show Boat Cimarron and Giant and the Hollywood moguls who brought her often controversial messages to the silver screen. more | $44.75 $34.67 FREE shipping go to store |
In Wives and Husbands distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens readers’ understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by the encounter with Americans as... more | go to store |
Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race Class and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the... more | $201.00 $165.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Central to both biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary circumcision has remained a defining rite of Jewish identity a symbol so powerful that challenges to it have always been considered taboo. Lawrence Hoffman seeks to find out why circumcision... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Genders and Sexualities in History Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Hardcover) This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity... more | $149.99 $107.81 FREE shipping go to store |
Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender: The Professionalisation of Women s Sport (Hardcover) The Professionalisation of Women s Sport draws upon the expertise of a range of scholars from the fields of sport sociology sport history sport economics to critically discuss the complex and often fragmented histories of women s involvement in... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Gender Religion and Local History: The Early Deccan (Hardcover) Gender Religion and Local History: The Early Deccan straddles two areas of research namely the study of women in a socio-religious context and images of the feminine that emerged as objects of worship. Based on a study of inscriptions sculptural... more | go to store |
Labeled “Amazons� by the national press women played a central role in the Huk rebellion one of the most significant peasant-based revolutions in modern Philippine history. more | FREE shipping go to store |
Caribbean Studies: Mulata Nation: Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba (Paperback) Throughout Cuban history the mulata a woman of mixed racial identity features prominently in visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure through historical eras Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and... more | go to store |
Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy s past this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Teresa Berger looks at liturgy s past through the lens of gender history understood as attending not only... more | $56.95 $47.19 FREE shipping go to store |
Which everyday practices allowed women to sustain and fulfill individuality and agency under dictatorial rule? This book adds to a rich scholarship on the history of late Francoism and the transition to democracy in Modern Spain through the lens of... more | $66.67 $55.62 FREE shipping go to store |
Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history art folklore philosophy or literature but... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Women s and Gender Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover) Women and gender studies is a field of academics which makes use of feminist and interdisciplinary methods to study the lives of women and their experiences. It is a multidisciplinary academic domain of literature history economics political science... more | $153.95 $118.23 FREE shipping go to store |
This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history this edited volume shows how politics at both... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Modern Jewish Experience Gender and Jewish History (Paperback) By revealing the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past this collection of original essays highlights the profound influence that feminist scholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s. Gender and Jewish History... more | $41.20 $30.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Women s and Gender History The Women s Suffrage Movement (Paperback) This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a landmark in the study of the women s movement . It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women s movement.... more | $130.25 $112.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Gender in History Women s Medical Work in Early Modern France (Paperback) Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health. In this study Susan Broomhall situates the practices and perceptions of women s medical work in France in the context of the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
In This Comprehensive Study Elizabeth Crawford Provides The First Survey Of Women S Suffrage Campaigns Across The British Isles And Ireland Focusing On Local Campaigns And Activists. Divided Into Thirteen Sections Covering The Regions Of England Wales... more | $70.00 $65.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Gender in History : New Perspectives on the Past 9780631210368 Used Over the past 20 years the study of history has been revolutionised by considerations of gender and yet most books on the subject focus on only one period or region. This concise overview redresses the balance exploring the construction of gender in... more | $6.87 $4.50 FREE shipping go to store |
Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy s past this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Teresa Berger looks at liturgy s past through the lens of gender history understood as attending not only... more | $169.43 $152.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds. The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on the male and female body. These texts do not... more | FREE shipping go to store |
This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges... more | $46.13 $41.21 FREE shipping go to store |
Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable polite society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban often... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Studies in European Culture and History Cinema After Fascism: The Shattered Screen (Hardcover) Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In this period of film familiar structures of epistemology... more | go to store |
Boys Boyz Bois concerns questions of ethics gender and race in popular American images national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity as ethnics refers to a system of morality and valuation... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. The Rise of Corporate Feminism (Hardcover) From the 1960s through the 1990s the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have against considerable odds broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Women in European Culture and Society: Gender Skill and Identity from 1700 (Paperback) A new and major contribution to the field Women in European Culture and Society is a transnational history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century that pushes women s history beyond national studies to create an integrated view... more | $41.59 $36.38 FREE shipping go to store |
Colette s Republic: Work Gender and Popular Culture in France 1870-1914 (Paperback) ...a finely crafted study...The wealth of her scholarly evidence aside Tilburg develops [her] arguments with magisterial care resulting in a book that deserves the attention of all students of contemporary French history. Highly recommended. - Choice... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Body Gender and Culture The Life of Madame Necker (Hardcover) Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker s life - her debilitating decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Body Gender and Culture The Life of Madame Necker (Paperback) Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker s life - her debilitating decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned A Reader in Animation Studies 9781864620009 Contributors draw on theories and methodology from film television and media studies art history and criticism and feminism and gender studies. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Ivf and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History (Paperback) This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction. It is a key text for scholars and students in social science history science and technology studies (STS) cultural studies and gender and sexuality studies and a resource for... more | FREE shipping go to store |
New African Histories: The Great Upheaval : Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria (Hardcover) In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism offering new... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Gendering Migration demonstrates the significance of studying migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity and the contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. Through a consideration of the impact of migration on men and masculine... more | $159.00 $32.48 FREE shipping go to store |
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