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Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

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The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought.

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The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought.

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Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages. -- .

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Shows the changing relationship of family to state, and the way in which pressure from below influenced the approach of the courts.

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This book explores the marital relationships of the Scottish elites, 1650-1850, looking at how they negotiated love, intimacy and power in a patriarchal culture. -- .

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This book opens up new avenues in gender history by mapping masculinity's part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing welfare states. Written in a highly accessible style, targeted at both students, professional historians and the interested general reader. -- .

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This is the first in-depth, comparative study of womens access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of womens legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life.

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This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women's access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of women's legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life. -- .

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Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships. -- .

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Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships. -- .

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Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24 -- .

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Explores the life of Madeleine Smith, who in 1857 was tried for poisoning her secret lover. Charting the course of this illicit relationship and Madeleine's subsequent trial, this title draws on a range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations and the extent of women's social and commercial activities.

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List of tables and figures; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Shetland dialect; Map; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index

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This book examines how in the nineteenth century Shetland became a female place. It offers fascinating insights into the formation and workings of a matriarchal society. The book includes a glossary and will appeal to those interested in local dialects, as well as students and academics of Gender Studies and Scottish History.

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This is a study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It offers a reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests original ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high Middle Ages.

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In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life.

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In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life.

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Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945 -- .

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Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945 -- .

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Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressive thought and behaviour in fin de siecle Britain.

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Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressive thought and behaviour in fin de siecle Britain.

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This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects.

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This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings -- .