Major Works: Social & Cultural History

New and Published Books

1. Children and Empire

   Edited by Cheryl M. Cassidy, Andrea Kaston Tange

   Series: History of Feminism

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse The History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields....

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women Workers in the Second World War

   Production and Patriarchy in Conflict

   By Penny Summerfield

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Out of the Cage

   Women's Experiences in Two World Wars

   By Gail Braybon, Penny Summerfield

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars. Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Women Workers in the First World War

   By Gail Braybon

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Commentators writing soon after the outbreak of the First World War about the classic problems of women’s employment (low pay, lack of career structure, exclusion from "men’s jobs") frequently went on to say that the war had "changed all this", and that women’s position would never be the same...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Women in Nazi Society

   By Jill Stephenson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   This fascinating book examines the position of women under the Nazis. The National Socialist movement was essentially male-dominated, with a fixed conception of the role women should play in society; while man was the warrior and breadwinner, woman was to be the homemaker and childbearer. The Nazi...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Nazi Organisation of Women

   By Jill Stephenson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   The Nazi’s were implacably opposed to feminism and women’s independence. Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics. Nazi ideology saw women in the activist role of 'wives, mothers and home-makers',...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Abortion in England 1900-1967

   By Barbara Brookes

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of debate over fertility control and its implications...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Women and Work in Pre-industrial England

   Edited by Lindsey Charles, Lorna Duffin

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women’s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Ends of History

   Victorians and "the Woman Question"

   By Christina Crosby

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"? How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession – the "woman question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians’ fascination with "history" and with the nature of "...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Nineteenth-century Woman

    Her Cultural and Physical World

    Edited by Sara Delamont, Lorna Duffin

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

    This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from...

    Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge