Category: Women In History

By Margaret L. King, Albert Rabil Jr.

ISBN-10: 0226436322

ISBN-13: 9780226436326

By Eileen Boris

ISBN-10: 0521455480

ISBN-13: 9780521455480

Within the minds of most folks, the house has stood except the realm of labor. Bringing the manufacturing facility or workplace into the house demanding situations this department. From the 1870s, whilst ny cigarmakers tried to finish tenement festival, to New Deal prohibitions within the Nineteen Thirties, gender ideologies formed the conflict over homework. yet by means of the Nineteen Eighties, the middle-class mom on the keyboard changed the victimized immigrant because the image of homework. domestic to paintings restores the voices of homeworking girls to the century-long debate over their exertions. The booklet additionally offers a old context to the Reaganite lifting of latest Deal bans. the place as soon as men's correct to agreement precluded legislation, now women's correct to employment undermined prohibition. even if empowerment comes from rights to homework or rights as employees will depend on even if homeworkers come into view as staff who occur to mom.

By Raffael Scheck

ISBN-10: 1417598093

ISBN-13: 9781417598090

ISBN-10: 1859737072

ISBN-13: 9781859737071

What function did right-wing girls play within the Nazi upward thrust to strength? moms of the state analyzes the paintings of those ladies within the Weimar Republic. the writer exhibits that they refused to face up basically for women's pursuits and as an alternative invoked the Volksgemeinschaft (community of the people), a imaginative and prescient of concord and cooperation. The emphasis at the Volksgemeinschaft made it tricky for girl conservatives to struggle for particular women's rights. but it additionally allowed them to stick over the conflicts among curiosity teams that tore aside Germany's bourgeois events. The ways that those ladies sought to comprise the fragmentation that finally rendered their events defenseless opposed to the Nazis sheds new gentle on Weimar politics. Bringing the debatable tale of right-wing girls to lifestyles, this booklet deals a compelling account of gender and politics in the course of a vital interval in German historical past.

By Emma Calve

By Robert Tine

ISBN-10: 0312970188

ISBN-13: 9780312970185

A guy, a project, and mins that may wipe out humanity. during this relentlessly gripping mental mystery, Johnny Depp performs Spencer Armacost, an astronaut despatched on an area challenge together with his companion, Captain Alex Streck. whereas in area an coincidence happens that cuts all touch among the lads and earth for 2 mins. either males go back from the journey with out reminiscence of these the most important mins, and shortly thereafter Streck mysteriously dies. bit by bit, Spencer's spouse Jillian, pregnant with twins, starts to suspect that anything occurred at the venture in the course of these minutes...something that modified Spencer right into a various person...something that will suggest the tip people all...

By Philippa Levine, Susan R. Grayzel

ISBN-10: 0230582923

ISBN-13: 9780230582927

ISBN-10: 1349356123

ISBN-13: 9781349356126

A lively choice of essays at the cultures of 19th and twentieth-century Britain. issues variety from prostitution and slavery to the impression of warfare on style journal reporting to inter-racial marriage within the postwar years. specific components of concentration contain the second one international battle, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization.

By Helen Macnaughtan

ISBN-10: 0415328055

ISBN-13: 9780415328050

This publication exhibits how, in the course of the interval of the japanese monetary miracle, a particular lady employment method used to be built along, and various from, the higher identified eastern employment approach which was once utilized to male staff. ladies, paintings and the japanese monetary Miracle describes and analyses where of woman employees within the cotton fabric undefined, which used to be a crucially very important with a wide staff. In proposing distinct facts on such key concerns as recruitment platforms, administration practices and the operating adventure of the ladies concerned, it demonstrates the significance for Japan's postwar economic climate of harnessing girl labour in the course of those years.

By Henry Fitzgerald Heard