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Helen Nicholson surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading from the 11th century to the 16th, arguing that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades, but that the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations.

This study of working women in Scotland in the period 1850-1914 focuses particularly on women working in Dundee's jute industry, integrating labour history and the history of gender. The author uncovers the patterns of their employment, their involvement in and relationship to trade unionism, and the forms of their resistance.

Women are still far from equal to men yet discrimination on the grounds of sex is unlawful. In this compelling, new book, Sandra Fredman asks the question: why has the law had so little impact? She argues that it is due to inherent limitations within the legal framework. In particular, the law is unable to address the division of labour within the family, a factor which continues to prove a serious impediment to women's progress. The author concludes that only when this caring work is properly valued, and men and women participate equally in both family life and the paid workforce will real progress in the arena of sexual equality be made.

Women are still far from equal to men yet discrimination on the grounds of sex is unlawful. In this compelling, new book, Sandra Fredman asks the question: why has the law had so little impact? She argues that it is due to inherent limitations within the legal framework. In particular, the law is unable to address the division of labour within the family, a factor which continues to prove a serious impediment to women's progress. The author concludes that only when this caring work is properly valued, and men and women participate equally in both family life and the paid workforce will real progress in the arena of sexual equality be made.

Examines the stories of more than 100 women and their varied experiences during the miners' strike of 1984-1985 to shed new light on working-class women's relationship to the 'political' and the 'ordinary', and demonstrate the ways in which gender roles, working-class lifestyles, and coalfield communities changed across post-war Britain.

The first genuinely global history of how women won the vote - written by a man. A book with controversial conclusions.

The first genuinely global history of how women won the vote - written by a man. A book with controversial conclusions.

The latest in the acclaimed Oxford Modern Britain series, Women and Work in Modern Britain provides a highly accessible introduction to this important topic. Rosemary Crompton reviews both the historic and recent changes in the pattern of women's paid employment, as well as the theories developed to explain them. Besides the changes in employment itself, the author investigates the wider implications for both families and structures of inequality.

Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women, fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume considers the trend towards greater particiption of women in labour markets. It addresses the trade-offs involved in increasing participation of women in paid employment, setting out a better informed policy debate about these issues, and paving the way to realistic targets and ways to achieve them.