a documentary history from the enlightenment to world war I
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Twells, Alison
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1A 2007
- Thesaurus
- vrouwengeschiedenis, feminisme, sociale klasse, gezondheid, liefdadigheid, inkomen, politiek, betaalde arbeid, religie, diaspora, joodse vrouwen, zwart, Iers, Aziatisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, verlichting, eerste wereldoorlog, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, reader
- Description
- This reader shows how historians understand and interpret the past and provides authentic voices from history. It contains material essential for students and ranges from original official documents - parliamentary debates, reports, state papers - to pamphlets, newspapers and journals, seminal texts by activists in the women's movement and classic works by scholars and commentators. I. Making women: enlightenment, evangelical and medical perspectives, II. Middle-class and elite women: domesticity and 'separate spheres', III. Philanthropy and politics to 1860, IV. Working women and the family wage, V. Working-class domestic life, VI. Community, politics and religion, VII. Women in diaspora: Irish, Jewish, Black and Asian women in Britain, VIII. British women and the empire, IX. Feminisms.