"Students and teachers of Victorian women’s careers will be grateful for [Mermin’s] intelligent and equable guidance as they negotiate the paradoxes of Godiva’s Ride." —Modern Philology "This brief study should be enormously helpful to students seeking an introduction to feminist approaches to Victorian writers." —Choice "Mermin’s fine book is a work of synthesis that moves across many genres of women’s writing... and touches on neglected writers of the period... as well as on the canonized few." —American Historical Review "Godiva’s Ride is a stimulating and enjoyable study of an exceptionally rich subject... " —Victorian Periodicals Review "Accessible, original, and gracefully written, Godiva’s Ride is likely to be as engrossing for the general reader as for the expert." —Victorian Studies Describes the first great age of women’s writing in England. Mermin discusses how women were encouraged to become writers, how they were discouraged and hindered, and what they wrote. The many women entering the mainstream of English literature in this era included the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Harriet Martineau.

"In this compelling study, Marian Morton traces the development of public and private health-care policies for single mothers and identifies the ways in which attitudes about religion, race, and cultural definitions of womanhood affected their treatment." "Focusing on the history of the public hospital and four private maternity homes in Cleveland, Morton considers the care of unwed mothers in the context of developing American social policy from the mid-nineteenth century to today. While social policy has taken on a growing responsibility for health care of dependent people, the perception of unwed mothers as "sinful" by the Christian church and "undeserving" because their situation was brought about by moral failure has differentiated them from other dependent populations. Government provides unmarried mothers with the least support, and private maternity homes, run mostly by churches, have remained committed to the nineteenth-century notion of spiritual reclamation. As Morton shows, regardless of the time period, women pregnant out-of-wedlock have been the dependent population most easily disciplined by private agencies and the most resented and politically vulnerable recipients of public assistance." "This vital work sheds new light on the current controversies over public assistance and legalized abortion and offers a powerful appraisal of the uncertainties and inequities of American social policy as it applies to women who fail to conform to social definitions of womanhood."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Covers the themes such as rebellion, persecution and injustice in Restoration England. This book talks about a disturbing period of British history through the characters of Lady Alice Lisle and Judge Jeffreys, a period when fairness, justice and truth were cast aside in the interests of political power and conformity.

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of 'the Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did.

The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology; and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience

genealogie, scheepvaart

Op zoek naar de trauma's die zijn familie hebben gevormd legt de schrijver bloot dat angst, lijden en woede van generatie naar generatie worden doorgegeven. 

Geschiedenis AJC, Arbeiders Jeugd Centrale en Geschiedenis Den Haag. Met overlijdensbericht van Ali Westendorp-Bus (1993)