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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. Offers 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. Num Pages: 364 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJC; HBTB; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845190873
ISBN
9781845190873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.15

Hardcover. Examines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild following World War II by offering support to families and encouraging women to enter the work force. This book also scrutinizes a society that proclaimed sexual equality, but was unable to achieve these goals because of the failure of the state to provide the structures necessary for equality. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335805
ISBN
9780880335805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Hardcover. Explores the literary and historical significance of women's writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism during the Irish Revival. This work studies women's writings in the Irish nationalist tradition, focusing on leading female voices in the cultural and political movements that helped launch the Easter Rising of 1916. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPFN; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631170
ISBN
9780815631170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.49

Paperback. Explores the literary and historical significance of women's writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism during the Irish Revival. This work studies women's writings in the Irish nationalist tradition, focusing on leading female voices in the cultural and political movements that helped launch the Easter Rising of 1916. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631415
ISBN
9780815631415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.74

Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture. Editor(s): Potter, Tiffany. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBLL; HBTB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 31. Weight in Grams: 690.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641815
ISBN
9781442641815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.03

Hardback. Analyses the lives and livelihoods of the female cashew shellers in Mozambique's capital in the colonial era, during which the industry grew to be a major export, and relates how the women played a fundamental, but previously underappreciated, role in the colony's economy. Num Pages: 303 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTB; JFFN; JFSJ1; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
James Currey
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011282
ISBN
9781847011282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.66

Hardback. Reveals the impact of Tanzania's land law reforms and the ways in which women's rights to land ownership have been overridden in spite of law. Series: Eastern Africa Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JFSJ1; JPVH3; LNSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
James Currey
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011138
ISBN
9781847011138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. John A. Lynn II examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. Num Pages: 252 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBW; JFSJ1; JWD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521722377
ISBN
9780521722377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.69

Hardcover. This text examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognised rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by the law. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTS; JPVH; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820316673
ISBN
9780820316673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.01

Hardback. A concise synthesis of the early years of the women's rights movement, 1828-1876, showing how early feminists wanted a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. American Ways Series. Series: American Ways Series. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFK; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566631457
ISBN
9781566631457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.76

Paperback. A concise synthesis of the early years of the women's rights movement, 1828-1876, showing how early feminists wanted a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. American Ways Series. Series: American Ways Series. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566631464
ISBN
9781566631464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.86

Paperback. This fifth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains a broad range of articles spanning the 1870s to the present and examines the mostly unexplored place of women in the history of the Canada s Prairie Provinces. " Editor(s): Marchilodon, Gregory P.; Kubick, Wendee. Num Pages: 500 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JF; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889773127
ISBN
9780889773127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, xviii, 324 p., 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ABA; ACV; ACX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
0002-
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226555843
ISBN
9780226555843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.50

Hardback. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, 2, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887055
ISBN
9780801887055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.71
€ 55.70

Paperback. Documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Num Pages: 202 pages, 3 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JD; 3JF; HRQX; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 331. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292725492
ISBN
9780292725492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

Paperback. A collection of stories, which examine society through the eyes of the woman, as she encountered choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love. It tells the stories of competing voices - of the men and women who entered into the fray of the fin de siecle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge or delight in the irrepressible New. Editor(s): Richardson, Angelique. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441566
ISBN
9780141441566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.00

Hardback. The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. Editor(s): Hahner, June E. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; DNF; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842026338
ISBN
9780842026338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.54

Paperback. Rossiter proves that despite frustrating obstacles created by the patriarchal structure and values of universities, government, and industry, women scientists made genuine contributions to their fields, grew in professional stature, and laid the foundation for the breakthroughs that followed 1972. Num Pages: 624 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; JFFJ; JFSJ1; P. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Maryland
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801857119
ISBN
9780801857119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.09

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988443
ISBN
9780295988443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.12

Paperback. The subject of this book is the lives of three very different 17th-century women. They were not queens or noblewomen, one was a Jewish merchant, one a Catholic mystic visionary, and one a Protestant painter. From their writings and memoirs the author has retrieved their lives from obscurity. Num Pages: 372 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; BG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674955219
ISBN
9780674955219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.66

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408837801
ISBN
9781408837801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.81

Paperback. The first study of how a group of diverse women spread, built and sustained a national network of branches supporting the militant suffrage campaign in Britain in the years before the First World War Series Editor(s): Sharpe, Pamela; Summerfield, Penny; Abrams, Lynn; Beattie, Cordelia. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 161 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New in paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719070037
ISBN
9780719070037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.63

paperback. Based on the recollection of the author's mother, other relatives, and family records, this is a vivid picture of the everyday life of a samurai household in the last years of the Tokugawa period. Translator(s): Nakai, Kate Wildman. Num Pages: 228 pages, 18 half-tones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804731492
ISBN
9780804731492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offers a misleading picture. This work dismantles the popular notion that politically involved women are always inspired by pacifism, equality, and justice. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 7 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; JFSJ1; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257870
ISBN
9780520257870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.93

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