Pandora's Breeches explores how women of the 17th and 18th centuries engaged in scientific activity and contributed to its rapid growth. It sets out a new and compelling version of science's past. --Publisher.
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Pandora's Breeches explores how women of the 17th and 18th centuries engaged in scientific activity and contributed to its rapid growth. It sets out a new and compelling version of science's past. --Publisher.
In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through t…
The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implications…
"The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family; and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implication…
This book examines Mary Ward's distinctive insight into late-Victorian and Edwardian society as a famous writer and reformer, who was inspired by the philosopher and British idealist, Thomas Hill Green. As a talented woman who had studied among Oxford University intellectuals in…
Studie over de aanpassing van het gezinsleven aan veranderende sociale omstandigheden sinds de 19e eeuw
Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy …
"Twenty-five years after the establishment of the first women's studies program, Marilyn Boxer says, the time has come to assess "where we have been, and where we are going." In When Women Ask the Questions, she traces the successes and failures of women's studies, examines the …
[II], 244 p. Bibliografie : p. 223-235. Met reg. The contributors examine the relationship between television and women's culture. They show how and why such different media as game shows, police fiction and soap opera offer women opportunities for negotiation of their own meani…
