Women's History Books

New and Published Books

1. Groundswell

   Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America

   By Stephanie Gilmore

   Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America offers an essential perspective on the post-1960 movement for women’s equality and liberation. Tracing the histories of feminist activism, through the National Organization of Women (NOW) chapters in three different locations: Memphis,...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Interpreting Devotion

   The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India

   By Karen Pechilis

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession

   Adopting and Adapting Western Influences

   By Aya Takahashi

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan

   Sexing Class

   Edited by Ruth Barraclough, Elyssa Faison

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Education Papers

   By Dale Spender

   Series: Women's Source Library

   First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuble record of women's struggle for eduacation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All of the women in this collection achieved significant reforms or struggled to change popular...

   Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's

   Radical Women's Press of the 1850's

   By Cherise Kramarae, Ann Russo

   Series: Women's Source Library

   First published in 1991. The volume reprints excerpts from six radical feminist journals of this crucial decade:The Lily, the Genius of Liberty, the Pioneer and Women's Advocate, the Una, The Woman's advocate and The Sybil...

   Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge
7. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group

   By Candida Ann Lacey

   Series: Women's Source Library

   First published in 1987. Reprints material from the 1850's and 1860's, a period which marked a turning point in the history of British Feminism. At the centre of this was Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, whose pioneering schemes to improve the status of women made these years some of the richest in...

   Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Revolution in Words

   By Cheris Kramarae, Lana F. Rakow

   Series: Women's Source Library

   First published in 1990. The revolution is one of the most radical periodicals of the Western women's movement. Though it only lasted a few years, it drew considerable attention to the courage and eloquence of its editors and contributors. The volume presents a wide range of exerpts from the...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
9. Before the Vote was Won

   By Jane Lewis

   Series: Women's Source Library

   First published in 1987. This volume traces the arguments of early suffragists through the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Includes the texts of the House of Commons Debate on the 1871 Disabilities Bill, 1982 Women's Franchise Bill and key documents by those who were opposed to...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Sexuality Debates

    By Sheila Jeffreys

    Series: Women's Source Library

    First published in 1987. From the 1870's to the 1920's, feminists actively campaigned against men's sexual abuse of women. This collection brings together the major articles which fuelled the feminist campaigns and helped to bring about significant reforms....

    Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge