Women's Studies

BIC code: JBFF
See also: Social Sciences

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  £80.00
  Scottish Women: A Documentary History, C.1780-1914
  - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  The editors of this volume introduce topics and debates relevant to nineteenth-century women's everyday lives, using selected primary source material to demonstrate key points.
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  £25.00
  Communist Women In Scotland: Red Clydeside From The Russian Revolution To The End Of The Soviet Union
  Neil C. Rafeek - Paperback - I.B. Tauris
  Neil Rafeek makes the first systematic study of 'Red Clydeside', the term given to communism, radical Labour and trade unionism in Scotland. He focuses on the role of women in the Communist Party and describes women's experiences of meeting leading international personalities of the era.
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  £55.00
  Elite Women And Polite Society In Eighteenth-Century Scotland
  Katharine Glover - Hardback - Boydell
  Using a variety of sources, this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the 18th century.
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  £6.79
  Women Of The Highlands
  Katharine Stewart - Paperback - Luath
  Katharine Stewart takes us to the heart of the Highlands in her history of the women who shaped the land and handed down the legends that have provided such a rich vein of material for generations.
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  £50.00
  Gender And Political Identities In Scotland, 1919-1939
  Annmarie Hughes - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  This volume makes a major contribution to Scottish, British and comparative gender, women's and labour history by combining personal testimony methodology, socio-economic and cultural analysis to reveal the dynamics of gender within a society considered by historians to be extremely misogynist.
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  £16.99
  Woman: Acceptable Exploitation For Profit
  Shreela Flather - Hardback - Whittles
  Highlighting the wasted potential of women as part of the labour force in developing countries, this powerful book offers a new solution in the fight against poverty and hunger.
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  £7.99
  The Scottish Suffragettes
  Leah Leneman - Paperback - National Museums of Scotland
  This text looks at women who fought tirelessly for equality. It focuses on the Scottish women of all ages and from all backgrounds who were involved in the non-militant suffragist movement.
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  £11.05
  Partisanas: Women In The Armed Resistance To Fascism And German Occupation (1936-1945)
  Ingrid Strobl - Paperback - AK
  This is an inspiring piece of writing, uncovering much of the unacknowledged history of the militant roles taken by women in times of war and simultaneously blowing apart the still pervasive myth that Jewish people did not fight back against the Fascist forces.
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  £62.50
  Communist Women In Scotland: Red Clydeside From The Russian Revolution To The End Of The Soviet Union
  Neil C. Rafeek - Hardback - Tauris Academic Studies
  Neil Rafeek makes the first systematic study of 'Red Clydeside', the term given to communism, radical Labour and trade unionism in Scotland. He focuses on the role of women in the Communist Party and describes women's experiences of meeting leading international personalities of the era.
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  The Biographical Dictionary Of Scottish Women: From Earliest Times To 2004
  - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
  This biographical dictionary presents the lives of individual Scottish women from earliest times to 2004. It explores the experience of women from every class and category in Scotland and the worldwide Scottish diaspora. Each entry seeks to tell a story rather than simply offering information.