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Out of his mind
Masculinity and mental illness in Victorian Britain
By Amy Milne-Smith
Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7885-5
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£25.00
Buy NowFeminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95
By Kate Mahoney
Feminist mental health activism in England, c.1968-1995 provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England, employing original oral history interviews alongside ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6226-7
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£85.00
Buy NowMedieval women and urban justice
Commerce, crime and community in England, 1300-1500
By Teresa Phipps
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 records of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7179-5
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Buy NowBecoming a mother
An Australian history
By Carla Pascoe Leahy
Becoming a mother charts the diverse and complex history of Australian mothering for the first time, exposing the ways it has been both connected to and distinct from parallel developments in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6120-8
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£85.00
Buy NowDistant sisters
Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880-1914
By James Keating
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women's ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6711-8
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£25.00
Buy NowA woman's place?
Challenging values in 1960s Irish women's magazines
By Ciara Meehan
This book explores representations of the domestic in Irish women's magazines. Published in 1960s Ireland, during a period of transformation, they served as modern manuals for navigating everyday ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6334-9
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£85.00
Buy NowHome economics
Domestic service and gender in urban southern Africa
By Sacha Hepburn
Domestic service has long been one of the largest forms of urban employment across southern Africa. Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of this essential sector in the decades ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6202-1
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£80.00
Buy NowTaking travel home
The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830
By Emma Gleadhill
In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5527-6
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£35.00
Buy NowMen on trial
Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800-45
By Katie Barclay
Men on trial explores how the Irish perform 'the self' within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6364-6
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£30.00
Buy NowWomen art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement
By Zoë Thomas
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. Challenging the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6027-0
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£19.99
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