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Timid and retiring, the Victorian housewife was an "angel in the house," or so says the stereotype. But when this angel picked up a popular magazine--The Lady, for instance--she saw in its advertisements images of Grecian goddesses, women warriors, queens, actresses,...
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Oxford University Press
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1994-10-13
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Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional,...
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OUP Oxford
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1994-05-19
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Whether pagan, Jewish, or Christian, religion was an integral part of the lives of women in the Greco-Roman world. Yet studies of the ancient Mediterranean world have focused almost exclusively on the religious beliefs and practices of men.
In Her Share of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1994-01-20
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Whether pagan, Jewish, or Christian, religion was an integral part of the lives of women in the Greco-Roman world. Yet studies of the ancient Mediterranean world have focused almost exclusively on the religious beliefs and practices of men.
In Her Share of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1994-01-20
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The history of the British working classes has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions, or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before the First World War stresses the...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-11-25
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The national press has recently lavished coverage on several major sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case. With each event came lurid stories pitting either a loose or a virginal woman...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-09-09
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Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history. Born on a caravan traveling from Teheran to India, she became the last (eighteenth) wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir and effectively took control of the government as he bowed to the...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-03-25
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Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both the property and...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-12-17
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A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield's book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed examinations of historical records showing the changing patterns of church membership and domestic life. She finds that...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-11-21
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Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present.
Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their...
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Oxford University Press
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1988-11-10
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One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By...
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Oxford University Press
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1988-11-03
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Housewives constitute a large section of the population, yet they have received very little attention, let alone respect. Glenna Matthews, who herself spent many years as "just a housewife" before becoming a scholar of American history, sets out to redress this...
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Oxford University Press
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1987-10-01
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The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and...
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Oxford University Press
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1986-12-11
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In this creative non-fiction collection, award-winning teacher and author Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli depicts roles she has assumed over the decades: daughter, sister, mother, teacher. Rebelling at some of the handmade clothes she had to wear in her youth, spending...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
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2025-10-23
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Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Finalist (2026)
Indigenous Peoples Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Finalist (2026)
Non-Fiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Finalist (2026)
Mapping Métis history and cultural heritage through women’s...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2025-04-17
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An intersectional examination of the ways in which nonmonogamy can break down traditional power structures to be particularly empowering to marginalized people.What does nonmonogamy allow other than the freedom to love whoever you wish to love? For Zara Shah,...
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Thornapple Press
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2024-12-06
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Higher Expectations is a practical guide to navigating academia for people who want to improve their own day-to-day work lives and create better conditions for everyone. Universities are broken: they’re built on systems that are discriminatory, hierarchical, and...
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Between the Lines
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2024-05-21
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Honouring the scholarship of Métis matriarchs
While surveying the field of Indigenous studies, Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides recognized a critical need for not only a Métis-focused volume, but one dedicated to the contributions of Métis women. To address this...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2024-04-07
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WINNER OF THE 2023 HERITAGE RECOGNITION AWARD by Museum and Heritage Prince Edward Island/Musee et patrimoine Ile-du-Prince-EdouardThe title, Unhistoric Acts, is inspired by the work of unheralded women in the 18th-century novel Middlemarch by George Elliot. Unhistoric...
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Pownal Street Press
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2023-12-14
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Living the Edges: A Disabled Woman’s Reader, the lives of women with disabilities have not changed much. StillLiving the Edges provides a timely follow-up that traces the ways disabled women are still on the edges, whether that be on the cutting edge, being pushed to...
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Inanna Publications
Parution :
2021-09-24
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