Product Description: Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women’s suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: A fascinating full-length biography, the first for nearly seventy years, it draws upon new approaches to feminist biography to place Emmeline Pankhurst within the context of her family and friends. Emmeline Pankhurst is based upon an unrivalled range of primary sources, including personal interviews with her surviving family, making this the most comprehensive and reliable account of an remarkable woman's remarkable life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as;* Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing* Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the constitutional wing*Jennie Baines and her link with the international suffrage movements.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Based on the 1994 Women's Studies Network conference, this text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A comprehensive study of juvenile delinquency and the moral regulation of children and adolescents in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Product Description: Sexuality and sexual politics have been much debated over the last 20 years and feminists, in particular, have been responsible for politicising the debate, pointing out how something which is usually regarded as private and personal is, in fact, a public and political issue...read more

Product Description: Women's studies is a rapidly expanding field with a tremendous growth in the number of London courses available. As a result of this there has been increasing debate about the nature of feminist research. Can a specifically feminist methodology be identified? Which research methods are most appropriate in feminist work? What is the difference between a feminist approach and other forms of scholarship...read more

Product Description: This book examines the education of working-class and middle-class girls between 1800-1914. It argues that an influential middle-class ideology advocated that all women should confine their activities to the home, as housewives and mothers...read more