This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Res…
Esta obra se divide en tres grandes partes. La primera gira en torno a la afirmación de Millett de que el sexo reviste un cariz político que suele pasar inadvertido la mayoría de las veces. La segunda parte es eminentemente histórica y su objetivo es aclarar la transformación de…
What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice? What are the connections between gender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness? Through a series of provocative an…
This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers Yosa Buson (171683), Ema Saiko (17871861), Masaoka Shiki (18671902), and Natsume Soseki (18671916) experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire o…
"Jacobitism was the ascendant political ideology in Irish Catholic society between the Battle of the Boyne and the outbreak of the French Revolution. This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II …
"This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II (1685) and the death of his son J̀ames III', t̀he Old Pretender', in 1766. Two crucial features are the analysis of Irish Jaco"
Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of historical enquiry. The Gentleman's Daughter provides an account of the lives of gent…
Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of historical enquiry. The Gentleman's Daughter provides an account of the lives of gent…
Examines woman's role in society, describing the politics of the varied liberation movements and their influence on the modern family.
Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-Semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World Wa…
Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-Semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World Wa…