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		Better a Shrew than a Sheep
		Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England		Social Studies
		Pamela Allen Brown
		Cornell University Press 2003 263 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0801488362
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	In this study, Pamela Allen Brown focuses on early modern jesting literature - a genre generally thought of as a discourse closed to women - and considers how the culture of jest shaped women's experience of both everyday life and stage dramas. Using many kinds of popular and documentary sources, Brown shows that ordinary women were not always, as commonly supposed, the butt of men's jokes, but often appear as bawdy storytellers, with a ready wit, and keen satirists, infused with a 'spirit of artful ridicule'.
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		The Women's Century
		A Celebration of Changing Roles, 1900-2000		Social Studies
		Mary Turner
		National Archives 2004 180 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1903365511
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	In 1900, a woman had no right to vote and, with very few exceptions, her place was in the home; by 2000 women could be business executives, politicians or priests. Mary Turner describes the progress of women's struggle for equality decade-by-decade, looking in particular at the Suffragette movement and the effects of the two World Wars on women's lives, and profiling such champions of women's rights as Lady Constance Lytton, 'Red Ellen' Wilkinson and Mary Stott.
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		A Tapestry of Lives
		Cape Women of the 17th Century		Social Studies
		June McKinnon
		Kwela 2004 128 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0795701225
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	Portraits of women at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century when it was a wild frontier town.
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		Women's Representations of the Occupation in Post-'68 France
				Social Studies
		Claire Gorrara
		Palgrave 1998 169 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0333669479
		Published Price £64.00		Sale Price £40.00
	This text examines French women's writing and representations of the Occupation in post-68 France. It looks at the work of "The Women Resisters", those women who were adult resisters during the war, and "The Daughters of the Occupation", those who were born during or after the war period. The author argues that the older female generation's nascent awareness of how gender informs political activism is reworked into explicitly feminist representations of wartime France by younger women writers.
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		Jean Rhys
		Women Writers		Social Studies
		Sylvie Maurel
		Palgrave 1998 193 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0333683935
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	Jean Rhys's writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the texts and their language. The book explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys's fiction. She is shown to develop an ethics of subversion through resistance to closure, irony, parody and her rewriting of "Jane Eyre". Each novel is treated as a complete aesthetic whole, with substantial references to the short stories, for a further insight into Jean Rhys's fictional universe.
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		Banishing the Beast
		Feminism, Sex and Morality		Social Studies
		Lucy Bland
		Tauris Parke 2001 412 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1860646816
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	In many ways the early 20th century's debates surrounding marriage, maternity and sexual rights for women are as relevant today as they were a century ago. Lucy Bland's survey of early feminist writers and their critics centres on sexual lustfulness or 'the beast within', and brings together the ideas of an extraordinary and passionate group of women and men who strove to bring female sexuality out into the open.
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		Women in England, 1500-1760
		A Social History		Social Studies
		Anne Laurence
		Phoenix 2002 304 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1842126229
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	During the early modern period, women's experience (and not just the gynaecological and obstetrical) was fundamentally different from men's; this book is a survey of women's expectations and experiences in relation to marriage and childbirth, education, religion, work, politics and the law. In particular, it covers the significant changes in the Englishwoman's lot between the Reformation and the coming of the Industrial Revolution.
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		The Higher Education of Women (1866)
		A Classic Victorian Argument for the Equal Education of Women		Social Studies
		Emily Davies
		Hambledon 1989 200 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1852850094
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	Victorian idealization of women as 'ministering angels' had the practical result of limiting their education to 'accomplishments', providing little to occupy their minds. This work by Emily Davies, who went on to found Girton College, makes a forthright and vigorous case for the extension of professional and university education to women. First published in 1866 and reprinted, with an introduction by Janet Howarth, in 1988.
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		The Miseducation of Women
				Social Studies
		James Tooley
		Continuum 2002 258 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0826450954
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	Bringing together women's voices from Bridget Jones to Simone de Beauvoir, Tooley challenges education's sacred cows and demands a radical rethinking of sexual politics.
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		Female Sexualization
		A Collective Work of Memory		Social Studies
		Frigga Haug et al
		Verso 1999 320 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1859842070
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	First published as Sexualisierung: Frauenformen 2 in 1983, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of women's bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative 'femininity'. A series of projects which focus on concrete instances of sexualization - hair, legs, the slave girl stereotype, women's gymnastics - lead to a broader examination of the relationship between power and sexuality, the social and the psychological. Translated by Erica Carter.
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