Refine your search
Categories
Language
Publish Year
Copyright Status
Loan Status
Refine your search
- Results per page : 10
an english family history, 1660-1857
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Foyster, Elizabeth A.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 32 2005
- Thesaurus
- huiselijk geweld, voogdij, echtscheidingen, huwelijken, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw
- Description
- In a time before divorce was generally accepted and husbands assumed the right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital violence. This book raised central questions concerning the extent of men's authority over other family members, the limitations of women's property rights, and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Although opinion about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided, Foyster demonstrates that beliefs determinig intolerable or cruel behavior had changed significantly by the nineteenth century.
Britain 1700-1850 : an introduction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Barker, Hannah > (ed.)
- Creator
- Chalus, Elaine > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Wilson, Kathleen
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1A 2005
- Thesaurus
- vrouwengeschiedenis, verlichting, onderwijs, seksualiteit, gezinnen, religie, arbeid, armoede, criminaliteit, consumenten, mode, politiek, overheid, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Britain witnessed huge changes between 1700 and 1850, as society adapted to unrecedented urbanization, commercialization, industrialization, imperial expansion and much more. this volume looks specifically at British women's experiences in the context of these major social, economic and cultural shifts. The chapters speak not of one overarching female historical experience, but of many experiences, of significant long-term continuities and of complex developments and changes. They speak, in particular, of tensions and opportunities, as notions of women and their place in society were examined and debated, and boundaries were extended or redrawn.
extraordinary women of the British romatic era
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- Gordon, Lyndall
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 2005
- Description
- It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for, but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Now-obscure female astronomers, photographers, sculptors, and mathematicians share these pages with celebrated writers such as Mary Shelley, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Robinson, who in addition to being a novelist and actress was also the mistress of the Prince of Wales. This book also makes full use of The New York Public Library's extensive collections, including graphic works and caricatures from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, manuscripts, hand-colored illustrations.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Agren, Maria > (ed.)
- Creator
- Erikson, Amy Louise > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Roberts, Michael
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 32 2005
- Thesaurus
- huwelijken, economie, historisch, Noorwegen, Zweden, Finland, Denemarken, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 15e eeuw, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This volume explores the meaning and importance of marriage in Northern Europe, looking at differences and similarities within and between Scandinavia and the british Isles. The point of departure is the concept of 'marital economy'. It is used to denote the economic partnership of husband and wife, which was the basis of all economic activities in the medieval and early modern period. The book employs a life-course approach, discussing in 13 different empirical studies (1) creating the partnership, (2) managing the partnership, and (3) dissolving the partnership. The studies discuss courtship, servants' work, elite strategies, retirement, inheritance, wills, marital disputes, decision-making, divorce, separation, and various forms of property arrangements. The introduction emphasises the martial economy as a key to understanding pre-modern economic life, and the conclusion discusses the reasons why this key has been lost to modern conceptions of economy.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hurl-Eamon, Jennine
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 8 2005
- Description
- The book discusses the history of violence in past societies. By focusing upon low-cost prosecutions in minor courts, the author uncovers thousands of assaults on the streets of early modern London. Previous histories stressing the masculine nature of past violence are questioned here: women perpetrated one-third of all assaults.
a dangerous recreation
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pearson, Jacqueline
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, Engels, schrijvers, leestheorie, attituden, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 18e eeuw
- Description
- The growth of female reading audiences from the mid eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women's history and a significant factor in shaping the literary production of the period. This book offers an overview and analysis of this growing readership, its representation in literature, and the extent of its influence. It examines both historical women readers, including Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Carter, Frances Burney and Jane Austen, and a wide range of texts in which the figure of the woman reader is important, from Gothic (and other) novels to conduct books and educational works, letters, journals and memoirs, political and economic works, and texts on history and science.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Moskal, Jeanne > (ed.)
- Creator
- Wooden, Shannon R. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Thesing, William B.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, schrijvers, onderwijs, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Collectively, these essays argue that teaching noncanonical women writers invigorates the curriculum as a whole, not only by introducing the voices of women writers, but by incorporating new genres, by asking new questions about readers' assumptions and aesthetic values, and by altering the power relations between teacher and student for the better.
gender, practice and social politics in England, 1600-1900
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lemire, Beverly
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2005
- Thesaurus
- economie, kapitalisme, dagelijks leven, geld, huishoudelijke arbeid, statistiek, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- This book examines the daily practices of men and women in the 17th through 19th centuries to budget successfully and make ends meet. The author shows the many ways businesses worked, such as pawning, selling, and borrowing on a regular basis, as well as the strong role gender played in the division of responsibilities.
lone mothers in eighteenth-century London
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Evans, Tanya
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 36 2005
- Description
- This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish as well as London's lying-in hospitals and the Foundling Hospital. It suggests that unmarried mothers did not constitute a deviant minority within London's plebeian community. In fact, many could expect to find compassion rather than ostracism a response to their plight. All poor mothers, left without the support of their child's father, shared similar strategies of survival and economies of makeshift.
a life of Mary Wollstonecraft
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gordon, Lyndall
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 WOL 2005
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, filosofie, feministische filosofie, feminisme, mensenrechten, Wollstonecraft, Mary, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the modern feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).
Showing 1-10 of 13 records.