This series delves into the intricate relationships between gender and historical events. It offers accessible introductions to key topics within gender history, exploring how gender roles and identities have evolved across time. Designed for readers seeking a clearer understanding of how gender has shaped the past and how the past has shaped gender.
This lively collection penetrates the stereotype of the Victorian 'paterfamilias' to reveal intimate and involved, authoritarian and austere fathers. Examining how paternal power was embedded in social institutions, it argues that fatherhood invoked more anxiety and debate than hitherto acknowledged.
One of the first single-authored books to survey the role of sex and gender in the 'new imperial history', Gender and Empire covers the whole British Empire, demonstrating connections and comparisons between the white-settler colonies, and the colonies of exploitation and rule.