Oxford University Press

What was life like for women living in Tudor and Stuart England? This fascinating book provides a colourful and comprehensive account of the daily experiences of these women, taken from first-hand sources such as diaries, letters, and household accounts. Their outlook on the world - the views of that half of the population usually hidden from the historical record - provides a valuable new perspective on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

This book provides a fascinating introduction to women's lives in the centuries when Christianity became the dominant religion. There are chapters on women and the law, medicine, and domestic life, and the author discusses some of the anicent, many still influential, theories about the nature of women. "Wonderfully rich in detail and example" - Daily Telegraph

A powerful and engrossing tale of extremes and extremists, Women in Love (1920), follows the passionate relationships of Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen with their respective lovers, the ominous Gerald Crich and the charismatic but fragile Rupert Birkin. The abortive alliance between the two men and the couples' affairs are played out against the derangements of industrialism and the need to find new ways of living and better ways of dying. The introduction explores the impact on Lawrence of the violence of the First World War.

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age and demonstrating the extent to which the social roles and identities of women in ancient Rome were constructed and policed through semiotic categories.

This volume offers a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, from the production of dictionaries and grammars to language teaching methods and language policy.

A comprehensive study of women's lives during the Holocaust and how gender often operated as a crucial signifier for survival, with many pregnant women, women with young children, and those deemed unfit for hard labour being sent straight to the gas chambers; challenging the overlooking and oversimplification of the role of gender in the Holocaust.

Increased female participation in the labour market is a very significant feature of recent economic developments. This volume analyses how demographic conditions have favoured or slowed the increase and what the demographic effects of the increase will be.

A completely new investigation of educated women in pre-modern Europe, based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, bringing to light an unsuspected treasure trove of women's writing in Latin, and requiring a complete reevaluation of the idea that all women had 'no access to education' before the nineteenth century. It includes a finding guide to women's poetry in Latin, and all texts are translated.

A completely new investigation of educated women in pre-modern Europe, based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, bringing to light an unsuspected treasure trove of women's writing in Latin, and requiring a complete reevaluation of the idea that all women had 'no access to education' before the nineteenth century. It includes a finding guide to women's poetry in Latin, and all texts are translated.