Oxford University Press

This book brings new perspectives to the study of sensation fiction in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines alongside their fiction to explore the self-conscious and complex ways they used sensation to re-work contemporary notions of female agency.

Professor Dean-Jones here gives a close analysis of scientific theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society.Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, and to date research done on this material has appeared only in discrete articles, in several languages, and scattered in various publications. In addition to presenting many original theories, therefore, the book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts and the results of scholarly research on these texts in a way that is fully accessible to the non-specialist.

Professor Dean-Jones here gives a close analysis of scientific theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society. Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, and to date research done on this material has appeared only in discrete articles, in several languages, and scattered in various publications. In addition to presenting many original theories, therefore, the book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts and the results of scholarly research on these texts in a way that is fully accessible to the non-specialist.

This is a research survey, commissioned by the UNFPA, of the measurable effects of women's education on fertility and female autonomy. Women's access to education is a fundamental right, empowering women and affecting their demographic behaviour. However, beyond some general assertions, there is little consensus on the exact nature of the relationships between education, fertility, and autonomy. This study reviews the considerable evidence from the developing world that has emerged over the last twenty years, and then passes beyond the limits of previous studies to address these relationships. Supported by full documentation of available survey data, it concludes that such contextual factors as the overall level of socioeconomic development and the situation of women in traditional kinship structures complicate the general assumptions. It lays out the policy implications of these findings and fruitful directions for future research.

This volume extends the research programme on women's empowerment originally brought to prominence at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. Contributors spanning a broad geographical scope have been brought together by editors Harriet Presser and Gita Sen, creating a book that refines the definition of the concept of empowerment and how it can be measured. In addition, it examines how useful it has been in the understanding of demographic process, and evaluates the usefulness of the concept for establishing population policies. It will be of interest to readers in both the research and policy communities.

The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, consider some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow.

The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, consider some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow.

This practical handbook is aimed primarily at GPs and covers all aspects of women's health care. It covers areas not normally included in standard gynaecology textbooks - the common ailments that women take to the GP as well as more serious problems. The book is very readable with a section in each chapter on the questions patients commonly ask (and the answers).

Women's Voices in Psychiatry examines the role of women in psychiatry and shares some of their key contributions to the specialty.