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This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women's legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the household. -- .

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Offers a way of conceptualising how women's drinking habits changed over more than a century in Britain. -- .

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Offers a way of conceptualising how women's drinking habits changed over more than a century in Britain. -- .

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Major histories of cartography have, until recently, ignored womens contributions to mapmaking and the assumption was that women played no role. Women in American Cartography examines the work of over fifty American women cartographers from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

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Major histories of cartography have largely ignored womens contributions to mapmaking. Women in American Cartography examines the work of over fifty American women cartographers from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

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The lives and contributions of eight female educators who influenced modern American schools are described, as well as the historical context in which the women lived and worked.

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A collection of source material on women in the ancient Greek world including literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, and papyri and inscriptions. Beginning in the eighth century BCE, it covers archaic and Classical Athens, Etruscan Italy and the Roman Republic, concluding with the late Roman Empire and the advent of Christianity.

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A rich and accessible selection of Greek and Roman original sources all of which are in translation.

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This text is devoted to women in Britain since 1900. The author combines evidence from primary research, with an emphasis on personal testimony, with the work of specialist scholars in each field. Embracing social, economic, political and cultural history, it examines the changing meaning of femininity within the twentieth century.

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This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.

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Looks at various sorts and conditions of women from c500 to c1500 AD, focusing on common experiences over their life-cycle, and the contrasts derived from their position in the social hierarchy. This book shows how, in bringing up their children and balancing family and work, medieval women faced many of the problems of their modern counterparts.

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This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives for English women in all walks of like from the time of the first Edward to the eve of the Reformation. The sources are introduced by an overview of current thinking about English medieval women below the level of the greater aristocracy.

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Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.

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Fills a gap in the still burgeoning literature on all aspects of women's lives in this period; A broad range of material is used, most of which has never been translated before; The three sections of the book provide a comprehensive account of all aspects of Renaissance women's lives as well as contemporary views on the nature of women.

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This book offers a look at the lives of Elizabethan era women in the context of the great female characters in the works of William Shakespeare.

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This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West.

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As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives and sisters who were determined to contribute to the British cause. They were first enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers. Later in the war they were accepted into the armed services. This book looks at the realities and myths of the women's role in the war effort.

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This book presents a comprehensive account of how queens, bourgeois women, and ordinary female laborers, and peasants reacted to, and at times claimed agency in the dramatic, and at times perilous politics of the modern European Revolutions.