Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology
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Written in an engaging and accessible style, this first broadly focused compensatory history of...
Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
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Women in Sport celebrates the success of the tough, bold and fearless women who paved the way for...
Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900
Laurence Madeline, Bridget Alsdorf, Jane R. Becker and Joelle Bolloch
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In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists,...
Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
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Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension women's history in the United States: how a...
Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany
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In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and...
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora: Contesting History and Power
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Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the...
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
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The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the...
Women in Imperial China
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This accessible text provides a comprehensive survey of women's history in China from the Neolithic...
Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?
Christina Schwabenland, Chris Lange, Jenny Onyx and Sachiko Nakagawa
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Women are at the heart of civil society organisations, yet CSO research tends to ignore...
Women and Things, 1750 1950: Gendered Material Strategies
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin
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In contrast to much current scholarship on women and material culture which focuses primarily on...