studies in gender and history

Studies in Gender and History Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship (Paperback)

Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects including the Adopt Indian and Métis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. Allyson D. Stevenson argues... more

Pre-Owned Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada 1930-1985 (Studies Gender History) Paperback

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Studies in Gender and History: Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History (Paperback)

In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. more

Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy 1700–1850 (Studies in Gender History)

This book considers patterns of women s employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex material on the worsted industry agriculture fashion trades service prostitution and marriage and family life will shed light on contemporary... more

Studies in Gender and History: Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War (Paperback)

Marlene Epp who has written extensively on Mennonite history presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who having lost their husbands and fathers to Stalinist work camps and the Second World War made an arduous journey through... more

Studies in Gender and History: Pick One Intelligent Girl: Employability Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada s Welfare State 1939-1947 (Hardcover)

During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically it became the task of... more

Studies in Gender and History: Caught: Montreal s Modern Girls and the Law 1869-1945 (Hardcover)

From the late nineteenth century to the Second World War a young and modern girl problem emerged in Montreal in the context of social and cultural turmoil. In Caught Tamara Myers explores how the foundation and implementation of Quebec s juvenile... more

Studies in Gender and History: Pick One Intelligent Girl: Employability Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada s Welfare State 1939-1947 (Paperback)

During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically it became the task of... more

Studies in Gender History: The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany (Paperback)

This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women s emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws. Its enlightened policy of family planning and liberalised... more

Studies in Gender and History: Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver s Beer Parlours 1925-1954 (Paperback)

When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlours where beer was served in glasses and only to seated patrons. No entertainment was allowed not even... more

Studies in Gender and History: Agents of Empire: British Female Migration to Canada and Australia 1860-1930 (Hardcover)

The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia much of which was managed by women. In Agents of Empire Lisa Chilton explores the work of the women who promoted managed and ultimately... more

Studies in Gender and History: Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada (Paperback)

Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one Socialism: A Critical Analysis... more

Studies in Gender and History: Agents of Empire: British Female Migration to Canada and Australia 1860-1930 (Paperback)

Agents of Empire highlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators work as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagement with this imperialistic feminizing project. more

Studies in Gender and History: Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver s Beer Parlours 1925-1954 (Hardcover)

When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlours where beer was served in glasses and only to seated patrons. No entertainment was allowed not even... more

Studies in Gender and History: Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada (Hardcover)

Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one Socialism: A Critical Analysis... more

Studies in Gender and History Documenting First Wave Feminisms Volume II: Canada - National and Transnational Contexts (Paperback)

This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada it highlights distinct elements... more

Pre-Owned Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War (Studies in Gender and History) Paperback

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Studies in Labour History Gender and Rural Modernity: Farm Women and the Politics of Labor in Germany 1871-1933 (Paperback)

By the end of the First World War women s labor was viewed by contemporary observers as fundamental to the survival of family farms in Germany and consequently to the nation s economic and social stability. At the same time however the overburdening of... more

Studies in the History of Education: Gender Race and the National Education Association: Professionalism and its Limitations (Hardcover)

Urban presents the NEA in its historical context turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study this unique volume presents... more

Studies in the History of Education: Gender Race and the National Education Association: Professionalism and its Limitations (Paperback)

Urban presents the NEA in its historical context turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study this unique volume presents... more

Royal Historical Society Studies in History New: Poverty Gender and Life-Cycle Under the English Poor Law 1760-1834 (Paperback)

Social welfare increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable and growing pressure during a period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their... more

Post-Communist Cultural Studies Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East (Paperback)

Koriak have been described as a nomadic people migrating with the reindeer through rugged terrain. Their autonomy and mobility are salient cultural features that ethnographers and state administrators have found equally fascinating and menacing. Tundra... more

Studies in American Popular History and Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

During the nineteenth century the American temperance movement underwent a visible gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However this transition of leadership masked the complexity and... more

Studies in European Culture and History: Violence and Gender in the New Europe: Islam in German Culture (Hardcover)

Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence and analyzes ways in which Muslim women... more

Routledge Research in Gender and History Revisiting Gender in European History 1400-1800 (Paperback)

Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women s studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book... more

Studies in American Popular History and Language Gender and Citizenship in American Literature 1789-1919 (Paperback)

Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national... more

Cambridge Studies in the History of the People s Republic of: Marriage Law and Gender in Revolutionary China (Paperback)

Xiaoping Cong examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigation of the ways in which a 1943 legal dispute over an... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History: Empires and Boundaries: Race Class and Gender in Colonial Settings (Paperback)

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

Pre-Owned Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri (Studies in the Legal History of the South) Paperback - USED

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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture: No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine (Hardcover)

For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine between 1933 and 1940 migration meant radical changes: it transformed their professional and cultural lives and confronted them with a new language... more

Gender and History Special Issues: Gend & Bod in ANC Medn (Paperback)

Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean builds up an important source of interdisciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. . more

Routledge Research in Gender and History Gender in Urban Europe: Sites of Political Activity and Citizenship 1750-1900 Book 19 (Hardcover)

This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture courts government and philanthropic bodies and public spaces outlining how a particular activity... more

Social History of Canada Series: No. 46: Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women s History (Paperback)

These essays represent an exciting breakthrough in women s studies expanding the borders of the discipline while breaking down barriers between mainstream and women s history. more

Rewriting Histories: Gender and American History Since 1890 (Hardcover)

These essays chart major contributions to recent historiography. Carefully selected for their accessibility and accompanied by headnotes and study questions the essays offer a clear and engaging introduction for the non-specialist. The introduction... more

Unreliable Witnesses: Religion Gender and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean (Paperback)

In her latest book Ross Shepard Kraemer shows how her mind has changed or remained the same since the publication of her ground-breaking study Her Share of the Blessings: Women s Religions Among Pagans Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (OUP... more

Studies in Imperialism Married to the Empire: Gender Politics and Imperialism in India 1883-1947 Book 44 (Paperback)

In Married to the empire Mary A. Procida provides a new approach to the growing history of women and empire by situating women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism. Rebutting interpretations that have marginalized women in... more

Gender in History: Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities Families and Masculinities (Hardcover)

This study of barbers-surgeons and other artisans involved in the care and appearance of the body - jewellers tailors wigmakers upholsterers - sheds light on the strong sociocultural affinities that existed in the Early Modern period between these... more