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Author: Jane E. Lewis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders the contribution of women to social action in Victorian and Edwardian England, highlighting the role of women in public life and the influence of the state, as compared to the individual or philanthropic activity, in the development of welfare provision.
Author: Steven King
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2010-04-07
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1836241380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a reappraisal of the role of women in the politics and practice of welfare in late Victorian and early Edwardian England. Using a working diary written by the activist and female poor law guardian Mary Haslam, this book portrays Bolton women as sophisticated political operators.
Author: Gerry Holloway
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1134513003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women’s job opportunities and status. Key themes and issues that run through the book include: continuity and change the sexual division of labour women as a cheap labour force women’s perceived primary role of motherhood women and trade unions equality and difference education and training. Students of women’s studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material.
Author: June Purvis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-01-28
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 1135367094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the family, education, sexuality, work and politics. Each contribution provides an overview of the main issues and debates within each area and offers suggestions for further reading. It not only provides an invaluable introduction to every aspect of womens participation in the political, social and economic history of Britain, but also brings the reader up to date with current historical thinking on the study of womens history itself.
Author: Julia Bush
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780718500610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBush (arts and social sciences, Nene University College, Northampton) analyzes aristocratic and upper-middle-class women's involvement in imperialist associations, and investigates their relationship with male imperialist leaders and the male-dominated patriotic leagues during the early 20th century. She also looks at their work with female emigration, education, colonial hospitality, and imperial race- thinking. She concludes that personal motivation, organizational methods, and patriotic faith were embedded in a social and political context that empowered elite women in selective, gender-related ways.
Author: Sue Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1136972331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women’s roles and ministry. This collection of pieces by key scholars combines cross-disciplinary insights from history, gender studies, theology, literature, religious studies, sexuality and postcolonial studies. The book takes a thematic approach, providing students and scholars with a clear and comparative examination of ten significant areas of cultural activity that both shaped, and were shaped by women’s religious beliefs and practices: family life, literary and theological discourses, philanthropic networks, sisterhoods and deaconess institutions, revivals and preaching ministry, missionary organisations, national and transnational political reform networks, sexual ideas and practices, feminist communities, and alternative spiritual traditions. Together, the volume challenges widely-held truisms about the increasingly private and domesticated nature of faith, the feminisation of religion and the relationship between secularisation and modern life. Including case studies, further reading lists, and a survey of the existing scholarship, and with a British rather than Anglo-centric approach, this is an ideal book for anyone interested in women's religious experiences across the nineteeth and twentieth centuries.
Author: Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1403937540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780719046520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is one of a series of bibliographical guides designed to meet the needs of undergraduates, postgraduates and their teachers in universities and colleges of further education. All volumes in the series share a number of common characteristics. They are selective, manageable in size, and include those books and articles which are considered most important and useful. All are editied by practising teachers of the subject in question and are based on their experience of the needs of students. The arrangement combines chronological with thematic divisions. Most of the items listed receive some descriptive comment.
Author: Geoffrey Russell Searle
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780198206989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow could Victorian capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and concepts of public morality and social duty? This book explores ideas about citizenship and public virtue and how public morality was reconciled with the market.
Author: George K. Behlmer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780804734899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the appropriation of the past in modern British culture. The twelve essays argue that to distinguish between "the new" and "the traditional" today often draws a false dichotomy. It argues that Britishness, in fact, has been the product of continuous creation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
