Exploring women's past : essays in social history

A Heritage of her own : toward a new social history of American women

A Touchstone book

Touchstone book.

The planter's wife: the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Vertuous women found: New England ministerial literature, 1668-1735 / Quaker marriage patterns in a colonial perspective / Eighteenth-century family and social life revealed in Massachusetts divorce records / Eighteenth-century American women in peace and war: the case of the Loyalists / Passionlessness: an interpretation of Victorian sexual ideology, 1790-1850 / The lady and the mill girl: changes in the status of women in the age of Jackson, 1800-1850 / Beauty, the beast, and the militant woman: a case study in sex roles and social stress in Jacksonian America / Family limitation, sexual control, and domestic feminism in Victorian America / Women and their families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842-1867 / The life cycles and household structure of American ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, and native-born whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855 / Life in the Big House / Marital and sexual norms among slave women / The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America / "Where are the organized women workers?" / A mother's wages: income earning among married Italian and Black women, 1896-1911 / Our own kind: family and community networks in Providence / Female support networks and political activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman / Birth control and social revolution / Cookbooks and law books: the hidden history of career women in the twentieth-century America / Time spent in housework / Women's work and the economic crisis: some lessons from the Great Depression / The kindred of Viola Jackson: residence and family organization of an urban Black American family / Feminism and the contemporary family

In times like these

The social history of Canada

Social history of Canada.

Gender and culture at the limit of rights

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Introduction: gender and culture at the limits of rights / Gender, history, and human rights / Between law and culture: contemplating rights for women in Zanzibar / A clash of cultures: women, domestic violence, and law in the United States / Making women's human rights in the vernacular: navigating the culture/rights divide / The active social life of "Muslim women's rights" / How not to be a machu qari (old man): human rights, machismo, and military nostalgia in Peru's Andes / "These are not our priorities": Maasai women, human rights, and the problem of culture / The rights to speak and to be heard: women's interpretations of rights discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement / Muslim women, rights discourse, and the media in Kenya / Fighting for fatherhood and family: immigrant detainees' struggle for rights / Defending women, defending rights, transnational organizing in a culture of human rights

Gender and culture at the limit of rights

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Introduction: gender and culture at the limits of rights / Gender, history, and human rights / Between law and culture: contemplating rights for women in Zanzibar / A clash of cultures: women, domestic violence, and law in the United States / Making women's human rights in the vernacular: navigating the culture/rights divide / The active social life of "Muslim women's rights" / How not to be a machu qari (old man): human rights, machismo, and military nostalgia in Peru's Andes / "These are not our priorities": Maasai women, human rights, and the problem of culture / The rights to speak and to be heard: women's interpretations of rights discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement / Muslim women, rights discourse, and the media in Kenya / Fighting for fatherhood and family: immigrant detainees' struggle for rights / Defending women, defending rights, transnational organizing in a culture of human rights

Society, culture, and the state in Germany, 1870-1930

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Is there a history of the "Kaiserreich?" / Writing the history of women and gender in imperial Germany / German history and the contradictions of modernity : the bourgeoisie, the state, and the mastery of reform / Gender and the politics of class formation : rethinking German labor history / Childhood memories, political visions, and working-class formation in imperial Germany : some comparative observations / Religion and working-class formation in imperial Germany, 1871-1914 / Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany / Liberals, conservatives, and the modernizing state : the "Kaiserreich" in regional perspective / Myth of an autonomous state : industrialists, junkers, and social policy in imperial Germany / Ambiguities of modernity ; welfare and the German state from Wilhelm to Hitler / World War I and the German welfare state : gender, religion, and the paradoxes of modernity / "She is the victor" : bourgeois women, nationalist identities, and the ideal of the independent woman farmer in German Southwest Africa / Reconsidering Habermas, gender, and the public sphere : the case of Wilhelmine Germany / Militarization and reproduction in World War I Germany / Creation of a culture of "Sachlichkeit" / "Kaiserreich's" ruins : hope, memory, and political culture in imperial Germany

Witches, witch-hunting, and women

Conduct books and the history of the ideal woman

Powers of the weak

Beyond power : on women, men, and morals

Too many women? : the sex ratio question

Beyond power : on women, men, and morals