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Penny Summerfield is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women”s History at Manchester University




92 Ebooks by Penny Summerfield

Tess Coslett & Celia Lury: Feminism & Autobiography
Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the …
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€33.80
Penny Summerfield: Histories of the Self
Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources …
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€47.62
Penny Summerfield: Histories of the Self
Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources …
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English
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€47.58
Tess Coslett & Celia Lury: Feminism & Autobiography
Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the …
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€58.72
Tess Coslett & Celia Lury: Feminism & Autobiography
Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the …
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DRM
€58.87
Penny Summerfield: Women Workers in the Second World War
The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challen …
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€53.62
Penny Summerfield: Women Workers in the Second World War
The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challen …
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€53.61
Gail Braybon & Penny (University of Manchester, UK) Summerfield: Out of the Cage
Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars. Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasis …
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€53.39
Gail Braybon & Penny (University of Manchester, UK) Summerfield: Out of the Cage
Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars. Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasis …
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€53.70
Penny Summerfield & Corinna Peniston-Bird: Contesting home defence
Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the …
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€26.99
Wendy Ugolini: Experiencing war as the ‘enemy other’
Italy’s declaration of war on Britain in June 1940 had devastating consequences for Italian immigrant families living in Scotland signalling their traumatic construction as the ‘enemy other’. Through …
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€36.99
Claire Gorrara: French crime fiction and the Second World War
This study explores France’s preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction. It examines what such pop …
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€29.99
Louise Jackson: Women police
Women Police examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First World War against a backdrop of social and …
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€26.99
Chris Pearson: Mobilizing nature
Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France, from the creation of Châlons Camp in 1857 to military environmentalist policies in the twentieth century. It of …
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€29.99
Laura Schwarz: Infidel feminism
Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female …
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€30.99
Melanie Tebbutt: Being boys
This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being Boys challenges many stereotypes about …
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€33.99
Simha Goldin: Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
Goldin’s study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France and England among the Christian population over a period of some 350 years. Lo …
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€34.99
Lynn Abrams: Myth and materiality in a woman’s world
Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts …
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€26.99
Angela Davis: Modern motherhood
This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive histori …
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€29.99
Chris Millington: From victory to Vichy
The most up-to-date and comprehensive English-language study of its kind, From victory to Vichy explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans’ associations during the interwa …
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€34.99
Spiros Tsoutsoumpis: A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War
A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering …
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English
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€42.99
Emma Vickers: Queen and country
The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and …
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English
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€25.99
Trudi Tate & Kate Kennedy: The silent morning
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The …
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English
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€34.99
Arthur McIvor & Linsey Robb: Men in reserve
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral …
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English
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€134.99
Laura Ugolini: Civvies
The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be …
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English
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€49.99
Susan M. Johns: Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages
Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious …
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English
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€134.99
Rochelle Rowe: Imagining Caribbean womanhood
Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural hist …
EPUB
English
DRM
€33.99
Sarah Browne: The women’s liberation movement in Scotland
This is the first book-length account of the women’s liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social …
EPUB
English
DRM
€34.99
Dana Wessell Lightfoot: Women, dowries and agency
This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil co …
EPUB
English
DRM
€33.99
Emma Robinson-Tomsett: Women, travel and identity
The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a ‘golden age’ of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and …
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English
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€134.99
Kate Hill: Women and museums 1850–1914
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persi …
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€33.99
Grace Huxford: The Korean War in Britain
The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950–53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply …
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English
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€129.99
Carmen M. Mangion: Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age
This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. It draws on archival materials and a remarkable set of eighty interviews to place Catholic sisters and nuns at the heart of the …
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English
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€41.99
Juliette Pattinson: Women of war
Women of war is an examination of gender modernity using the world’s longest established women’s military organisation, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. These New Women’s adoption of martial uniform …
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English
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€129.99
Caitriona Beaumont: Housewives and citizens
After an extremely successful debut in hardback, Housewives and citizens is now available in paperback for the first time. This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and po …
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English
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€32.99
Carol Acton & Jane Potter: Working in a world of hurt
Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war. It focuses not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty …
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€129.99
Helen Glew: Gender, rhetoric and regulation
The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions influenced both each other and pr …
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€43.99
Cathryn Spence: Women, credit, and debt in early modern Scotland
Uses court records to re-evaluate women’s economic roles in early modern …
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English
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€129.99
Lindsey Dodd: French children under the Allied bombs, 1940–45
Provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57, 000 French civilians. Using oral history and archival research, it provides an …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Leonie Hannan: Women of letters
Women of letters writes a new history of English women’s intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this …
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English
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€33.99
Ginger Frost: Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basi …
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English
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€29.99
Carol Engelhardt-Herringer: Victorians and the Virgin Mary
This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst osten …
EPUB
English
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€29.99
Jennifer M. Lloyd: Women and the shaping of British Methodism
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the …
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English
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€129.99
Megan Smitley: The feminine public sphere
At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as …
EPUB
English
DRM
€129.99
Maureen Wright: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian …
EPUB
English
DRM
€30.99
Lynne Attwood: Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policie …
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English
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€43.99
Katie Barclay: Love, Intimacy and Power
Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scot …
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€27.99
Lucy Bland: Modern women on trial
Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, …
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English
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€29.99
Emma Newlands: Civilians into soldiers
Civilians into soldiers is an examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of official records and servicemen’s personal testimonies, it explores …
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English
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€129.99
Tess Cosslett & Alison Easton: Women, Power and Resistance
Women, Power and Resistance is an accessible introductory book on Women’s Studies. It is divided into interdisciplinary sections covering key aspects and major debates, centering on four main …
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€31.98
Anne Wohlcke: The ‘perpetual fair’
Each summer, a ‘perpetual fair’ plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to …
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€29.99
Peter Gatrell & Liubov Zhvanko: Europe on the move
Mass population displacement affected millions of Europe’s civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914–18. At the end of the war, a senior Red Cross official wrote ‘there were refugees …
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€49.99
Lucy Noakes: Dying for the nation
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have to find ways to manage death, to support …
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€129.99
James E. Connolly: The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914–18
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Much of the French …
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English
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€0.00
Susan M. Johns: Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in …
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English
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€0.00
Heloise Brown: The truest form of patriotism’
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book explores the pervasive influence of pacifism on Victorian feminism. It provides an …
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English
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€0.00
Juliette Pattinson: Behind enemy lines
Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiograp …
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English
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€27.99
Juliette Pattinson: Women of war
Women of war is an examination of gender modernity using the world’s longest established women’s military organisation, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. These New Women’s adoption of martial uniform …
EPUB
DRM
€105.46
Grace Huxford: The Korean War in Britain
The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950–53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply …
PDF
DRM
€106.25
Carmen M. Mangion: Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age
This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. It draws on archival materials and a remarkable set of eighty interviews to place Catholic sisters and nuns at the heart of the …
PDF
DRM
€32.50
James E. Connolly: The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914–18
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Much of the French …
PDF
DRM
€3.75
Susan M. Johns: Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in …
PDF
English
DRM
€3.75
Heloise Brown: truest form of patriotism’
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book explores the pervasive influence of pacifism on Victorian feminism. It provides an …
PDF
English
DRM
€3.71
Spiros Tsoutsoumpis: history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War
A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering …
EPUB
English
DRM
€31.33
Emma Vickers: Queen and country
The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€18.73
Kate Kennedy & Trudi Tate: silent morning
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The …
EPUB
English
DRM
€25.06
Anne Wohlcke: The ”Perpetual Fair”
Each summer, a ”perpetual fair” plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according …
EPUB
DRM
€22.54
Arthur McIvor & Juliette Pattinson: Men in reserve
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral …
EPUB
DRM
€105.45
Laura Ugolini: Civvies
Civvies explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War. Although the conflict continues to attract enormous interest, most attention remains focused …
EPUB
DRM
€38.78
Susan M. Johns: Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages
Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.81
Rochelle Rowe: Imagining Caribbean womanhood
Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural …
EPUB
English
DRM
€25.02
Sarah Browne: women’s liberation movement in Scotland
This is the first book-length account of the women’s liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social …
EPUB
English
DRM
€24.98
Dana Wessell Lightfoot: Women, dowries and agency
This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil …
EPUB
English
DRM
€24.93
Emma Robinson-Tomsett: Women, travel and identity
The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a ‘golden age’ of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.77
Caitriona Beaumont: Housewives and citizens
After an extremely successful debut in hardback, Housewives and citizens is now available in paperback for the first time. This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€23.79
Carol Acton & Jane Potter: Working in a world of hurt
Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war. It focuses not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty …
EPUB
English
DRM
€100.21
Cathryn Spence: Women, Credit, and Debt In Early Modern Scotland
This text provides the first full-length consideration of women”s economic roles in early modern Scottish towns. Drawing on tens of thousands of cases entered into burgh court litigation between …
EPUB
DRM
€106.54
Lindsey Dodd: French children under the Allied bombs, 1940-45
Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57, 000 French civilians. Using oral history as …
EPUB
DRM
€106.18
Leonie Hannan: Women of letters
Women of letters writes a new history of English women”s intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this …
EPUB
DRM
€26.05
Carol Engelhardt-Herringer: Victorians and the Virgin Mary
This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst …
EPUB
English
DRM
€21.29
Ginger Frost: Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal …
EPUB
English
DRM
€21.29
Lynne Attwood: Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government …
EPUB
English
DRM
€31.23
Jennifer M. Lloyd: Women and the shaping of British Methodism
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.82
Megan Smitley: feminine public sphere
At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.78
Katie Barclay: Love, Intimacy and Power
Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.04
Maureen Wright: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian …
EPUB
English
DRM
€22.54
Lucy Bland: Modern women on trial
Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€22.52
Emma Newlands: Civilians into soldiers
Civilians into soldiers is an examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of official records and servicemen’s personal testimonies, it explores …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.95