Women's lives have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century: reduced fertility and the removal of formal barriers to their participation in

This woman-centered history of Britain in the 20th century traces the changing concept of femininity in different chronological time periods. Women are focused

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A distinguished social and feminist historian chronicles the dramatic changes that have taken place in the lives of American and British women over the course o

The millennium has sharpened perspectives on the history of women in twentieth-century Britain. Many features of the contemporary gender order date only from th