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1. Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

   By Carol Dyhouse

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Students: A Gendered History

   By Carol Dyhouse

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain. From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since...

   Published December 13th 2005 by Routledge
3. No Distinction Of Sex?

   Women In British Universities, 1870-1939

   By Carol Dyhouse

   Series: Women's and Gender History

   In 1939 women represented nearly one quarter of the student population in British universities. Though tantamount to a "social revolution" in the eyes of many contemporaries, the process has recieved scant attention from historians. Whilst prejudice and hostility towards women lingered on in Oxford...

   Published June 28th 1995 by Routledge