Books
Recommended Reading
Women’s History – A small
sample of the books that we stock.
Johns, S. M. Noblewomen, Aristocracy
and Power in the 12th Century. £16.99.
A reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic
society.
Williams, L. Wives, Mistresses
and Matriarchs. £10.99.
Tolerance and equality for the women of Asia; her research
stretches from Indonesia to the Philippines, China, Vietnam,
Laos and Sri Lanka, regions undergoing profound social
changes including women’s roles.
Abrams, L. The Making of Modern
Woman. £16.99.
The trends which have shaped women’s changing sense
of self including the new ideas influencing women’s
perception of sexuality, motherhood, the home and the politics
of femininity.
Fraser, A. The Weaker Vessel. £8.99.
How weak were the women of the 17th Century? What expectations
could they have beyond marriage and motherhood? Did anyone
marry for love, and could she divorce? What rights had
the unmarried and what expectations the widow? This book
attempts to answer these and other numerous questions related
to women’s history.
Bellamy, J. et al. Women, Scholarship
and Criticism. £16.99.
Artistic, critical and cultural productions by women between
1790-1900 includiing Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley, Agnes
Strickland and Anna Jameson.
Brown, H. The Truest Form of Patriotism:
Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. £14.99.
The Victorian women who campaigned for peace and tolerance
during the 19th century, their role within the Empire, their
eligibility for citizenship and their ability to act as moral
guardians in public life.
Summerfield, P. Reconstructing
Women’s Wartime Lives. £16.99.
The effects of the Second World War upon women’s sense
of self and the debate between two wartime feminine identities;
the women who did the men’s jobs and those removed
from manual labour and yet who stoically endured the pressures
and privations of war.
Henig, R & Henig, S. Women and Political Power: Europe
since 1945. £11.99.
The factors which have helped and hindered women’s
political progress in ten western European countries and
the contrasts and similarities in the history of women, leadership
roles and power.
Morgan, C. E. Women Workers
and Gender Identities, 1835-1913. £14.99.
The experiences of women workers in the cotton and small
metal industries and the clash between the culture of womanhood
clash with such unfeminine roles.
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