British Women S History

Author : June Purvis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415238892

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Women's History by June Purvis Pdf

Women'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 : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860656

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Burdens of History by Antoinette Burton Pdf

In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.

Author : Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 0415291763

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Women's History by Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus Pdf

A wide-ranging, thematic survey of women's history in Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with chapters written by both well-established writers and new and dynamic scholars in a thorough and well-balanced selection.

Author : Jenni Murray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780749914

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A History of Britain in 21 Women by Jenni Murray Pdf

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. Jenni Murray presents the history of Britain as you’ve never seen it before, through the lives of twenty-one women who refused to succumb to the established laws of society, whose lives embodied hope and change, and who still have the power to inspire us today.

Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801876400

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British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 by Devoney Looser Pdf

Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men—one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history. Looser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen and shows how each of their contributions to historical discourse differed greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class, and generic affiliations. Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.

Author : Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403937544

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British Women in the Nineteenth Century by Kathryn Gleadle Pdf

This 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.

Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137584656

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 by Lucy Hartley Pdf

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0230200796

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The History of British Women's Writing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Women
ISBN : 0719046521

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British Women's History by Anonim Pdf

This 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 : Dorothy Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UVA:X002335867

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British Women in the Nineteenth Century by Dorothy Thompson Pdf

Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0140279024

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A Century of Women by Sheila Rowbotham Pdf

A distinguished social and feminist historian chronicles the dramatic changes that have taken place in the lives of American and British women over the course of the last one hundred years, explaining how women have shaped the twentieth century and featuring essays on topics ranging from lesbian culture to Barbie dolls.

Author : Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521773492

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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien Pdf

An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.

Author : Cathy Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135355333

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A Historical Dictionary of British Women by Cathy Hartley Pdf

This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.

Author : Lisa Kasmer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611474961

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Novel Histories by Lisa Kasmer Pdf

Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation in the republic of letters was both celebrated and reviled, these authors took cues from developments that revolutionized British history writing to push the limits of narrated history to respond to contemporary national politics. Through an examination of the conventions of historical and literary genres; historiography during the period; and the gendering of civic and literary roles, this study shows not only a social, political, and literary lineage among women’s history writing and fiction but also among women’s writing and the writing of history.

Author : Esther Breitenbach,Pat Thane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441149008

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Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century by Esther Breitenbach,Pat Thane Pdf

The continuing under-representation of women in political and public life remains a matter of concern across a wide range of countries, including the UK and Ireland. Within the UK it is a topical issue as political parties currently debate strategies, often controversial, which will increase women's representation. At the same time, devolution has ushered in significant change in the level of women's representation in Scotland and Wales and improved representation for women in Northern Ireland. That such increases in women's representation in political institutions have been slow in coming is indisputable, given that full enfranchisement of women on equal terms with men was achieved in Ireland in 1921 and in the UK in 1928.