This publication examines English women's legal rights to land and the reality and consequences of their land ownership over four centuries. More specifically, the book is about how gender shaped opportunities for and experiences of owning property, particularly for women. The focus is especially on land, residential buildings and commercial property, but livestock, common and personal property also feature. Included are the very latest qualitative and quantitative research on women's landownership.
Boek over de geschiedenis van het begrip 'sekse'. De Nederlandse taal kent een aantal woorden waarin de verschillen in lichaam, macht en status tussen vrouwen en mannen worden uitgedrukt. De woorden 'sekse' en 'geslacht' die steeds vaker vervangen worden door het Engelse begrip 'gender', hebben een lange geschiedenis. Die geschiedenis wordt in dit boek verkend en bestrijkt de periode vanaf de zeventiende eeuw tot heden, waarin de betekenis van sekse steeds opnieuw wordt gedefinieerd, bewaakt en betwist.
This volume places female criminality within its everyday context. It reveals how their socio-economic and cultural contexts provided women with 'agency' against a range of European backdrops, despite a fundamentally patriarchal criminal justice system, and includes in-depth analysis of original sources to show how changing living standards, employment, schooling and welfare arrangements had a direct impact on the quality of life of working class women, their risk of becoming involved in crime, and the likelihood of being prosecuted for it.
This collection of essays gives an overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, between 1600 and the present, exploring the differences between the writing of women and men in Russia. It combines a study of the history and biography of previously neglected women writers with close readings of literary texts, demonstrating that the work of many Russian writers contains much of interest for contemporary women readers. (First published in 1996.) Contents: 1 - Introduction: new perspectives on women and gender in Russian literature / Rosalind Marsh: Part I: Historical and biographical perspectives: 2 - Women in seventeenth-century Russian literature / Rosalind McKenzie: 3 - Conflicts over gender and status in early nineteenth-century Russian literature: the case of Anna Bunina and her poem ‘Padenie Faetona’ / Wendy Rosslyn: 4 - Reading the future: women and fortune-telling in Russia (1770–1840) / Faith Wigzell: 5 - Russian women writers of the nineteenth century / Ol'ga Demidova: 6 - The ‘woman question’ of the 1860s, and the ambiguity of the ‘learned woman’ / Arja Rosenholm: 7 - Carving out a career: women prose writers, 1885–1917, the biographical background / Charlotte Rosenthal: 8 - The fate of women writers in literature at the beginning of the twentieth century: ‘A. Mirè’, Anna Mar, Lidiia Zinov'eva-Annibal / Mariia Mikhailova: 9 - Lidiia Zinov'eva-Annibal's The Singing Ass: a woman's view of men and Eros / Pamela Davidson: 10 - Anastasiia Verbitskaia reconsidered / Rosalind Marsh: 11 - Soviet woman of the 1980s: self-portrait in poetry / Elena Trofimova: Part II: The perspective of literary criticism: 12. - The silence of rebellion: women in the work of Leonid Andreev / Eva Buchwald: 13 - Poor Liza: the sexual politics of Elizaveta Bam by Daniil Kharms / Graham Roberts: 14 - The crafting of a self: Lidiia Ginzburg's early journal / Jane Gary Harris: 15 - Voyeurism and ventriloquism: Aleksandr Velichanskii's Podzemnaia nimfa / Gerald S. Smith: 16 - Thinking self in the poetry of Ol'ga Sedakova / Stephanie Sandler: 17 - Women's space and women's place in contemporary Russian fiction / Helena Goscilo
Boek over de geschiedenis van het begrip 'sekse'. De Nederlandse taal kent een aantal woorden waarin de verschillen in lichaam, macht en status tussen vrouwen en mannen worden uitgedrukt. De woorden 'sekse' en 'geslacht' die steeds vaker vervangen worden door het Engelse begrip 'gender', hebben een lange geschiedenis. Die geschiedenis wordt in dit boek verkend en bestrijkt de periode vanaf de zeventiende eeuw tot heden, waarin de betekenis van sekse steeds opnieuw wordt gedefinieerd, bewaakt en betwist.