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Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement
This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. …
Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World
The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural imagination for 200 …
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 …
Medieval Women and Urban Justice
This book provides a detailed analysis of women’s involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich …
Queen and Country
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 women lived, loved …
Women of the Right Spirit
This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. …
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 …
Jewish women in Europe in the Middle Ages: A quiet revolution
Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages.
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 …
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 …
Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France
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 …
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 …