France

Product DescriptionFrom the pages of the American Civil War comes a unique story of 450 Southern women and children, who were arrested for treason by Union General Sherman for working in the Roswell, Georgia mills, weaving gray wool for Confederate...

Product DescriptionThis book is the first to examine the relationship between gender and immigration in multi-ethnic France and to look at the personal and political issues at stake for women of immigrant origin. It examines political representations...

Product DescriptionFirst published in 1985, Structure and Mobility was intended to be a sociological portrait of Marseille during the epochal changes of the nineteenth century. Working principally from marriage registers of the period, Professor...

Product DescriptionClaire Laubier brings together documentary and statistical material; extracts from newspapers and journals, literary texts, advertisements, manifestos, and personal testimonies. Each extract relates to the different experiences of...

Product DescriptionFrance has long captured the imagination of Americans. For some women, a love of France and all things French started when they were schoolgirls tackling one of the most seductive of tongues. For others, the attraction came later...

Product DescriptionFrance and Women is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. McMillan offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous...

Product DescriptionSince Central Asia is generally considered to be the 'forgetten world' of the former Soviet Union, Central Asian women constitute the 'lost voices' within those regions.  Corcoran-Nantes considers how the shift to Western...

Product DescriptionCari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was ...

Product DescriptionThis enlightening study of the relations between the Marxist wing of the French socialist movement and a substantial female industrial proletariat reveals the failure of the Socialists to assimilate an important potential...

ISBN13: 9781845452780Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWomen Migrants from East to West documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of...