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Books on: british women

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British Women and the Spanish Civil War

Book by Angela Jackson; Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

British--Spain--Biography, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Personal Narratives, British, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Women, Women--Great Britain--Biography, Women--Spain--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to understand not only how women perceived the war in Spain...of the interactions between British women who were involved with...the First World War, British women had been described as Our Amazons...The reference to Amazons in Woman To-day was therefore taking...wider discourse relating to women and war, in which the self...
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Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition

Book by Karen R. Lawrence; Cornell University Press, 1994

Subjects:

British--Travel--Historiography, English Prose Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Travel In Literature, Travelers' Writings, English--History And Criticism, Voyages And Travels--Historiography, Women And Literature--Great Britain--Historiography, Women Travelers--Great Britain--Biography--History And Criticism, Women--Travel--Historiography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Brantlingers description of British conquest: "In British literature from about 1830 to...colonialisms other, sometimes another woman. In this book I explore, in...adventure have been "useful" for British women writers in supplying a set of...
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Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

Book by Antoinette Burton; University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Subjects:

Feminism--Great Britain--History, Feminists--Great Britain--Attitudes--History, Imperialism--History, Women--India--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...feminists representations of Indian women that was so important in shaping...like the contemporary Indian woman, but rather a set of very...of colonial womanhood that British feminist interpreters created. British feminist periodicals thus quite...certain versions of Indian women to a feminist audience throughout...
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Connecting Links: The British and American Woman Suffrage Movements, 1900-1914

Book by Patricia Greenwood Harrison; Greenwood Press, 2000

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Suffragists--Great Britain--History, Suffragists--United States--History, Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

Young American women worked directly in the British movement, particularly with the WSPU...other campaign or movement in peacetime British and American history brought British and American women together as did the suffrage campaign in...
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Women against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870

Book by Clare Midgley; Routledge, 1995

Subjects:

Antislavery Movements--Great Britain, Women Abolitionists--Great Britain

Collections: History, Entire Library

working-class women within Britain. Their...the position of both British workers and British wives and that of West...the hearts of British women, to plead for those...women must thus rely on British women, who have more...

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Journal Articles on: british women

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Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy

Journal article by Maria Schoina; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy...Esther Schor investigates two British women journalists, Theodosia Garrow...portentous symbolic force for British women artists who, at the time, claimed...
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Janice A. Boddy, Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan

Journal article by Alden Young; Africa, Vol. 78, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Boddy, Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial...Civilizing Women: British crusades in colonial...light the ways in which women related to the practices...increased fertility, the British failure to understand...
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British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own

Journal article by Kristin Bluemel; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 31, 1999

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Books--Reviews, British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds...Arms provides an excellent companion to British Women Writers of World War II since it treats...diagnosing this problem. She finds that: British women writing the Second World War excavate...
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Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War

Journal article by Kristin Bluemel; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 31, 1999

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Books--Reviews, Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War by KRISTIN...provides an excellent companion to British Women Writers of World War II since it treats...diagnosing this problem. She finds that: British women writing the Second World War excavate...
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Lynette Felber, Ed. Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899

Journal article by Stephanie Barczewski; Biography, Vol. 31, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Ed. Clios Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790...ed. Clios Daughters: British Women Making History...first section look at women writing about "uprisings...inscribe elite white British women into (the production...

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Magazine Articles on: british women

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Britain's Moving Story: New Studies of Names and Genes Are Confounding Core Beliefs about Being British. We Are Unadventurous, Our Family Ties Are Strong and Women Are Exceptionally Faithful

Magazine article by Robin Mckie; New Statesman, Vol. 136, January 15, 2007

Subjects:

British history--Analysis, British--Origin, British--Social aspects, Names--Origin

Collections: Entire Library

...that most of the genes of the British people today can be traced...programme of research revealed that British women are marked by their startling...studying the Y chromosomes of British men. This bundle of DNA confers...single act of infidelity by a woman over all those centuries...
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Domestic Violence against British Women

Magazine article by Jane Seymour; Contemporary Review, Vol. 280, February 2002

Subjects:

Abused women--United Kingdom, Family violence--United Kingdom, Pregnant women--Crimes against, United Kingdom--Crime

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...remain unchanged. Two British women still die every...Every year 100,000 women in the capital seek...police. On average, a woman will be assaulted by...least one in every three women is beaten, coerced...UNFPA), as many as one woman in every four is physically...and anxiety can push women into smoking, alcohol...pregnancy is a time when British women are in routine...
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No Place for a Woman: British Sport Is Still Overwhelmingly Male-Oriented and Male-Driven-And Many in the Industry Are Very Happy to Keep It That Way

Magazine article by Emma John; New Statesman, Vol. 136, August 27, 2007

Subjects:

Sports--Evaluation, Sports--United Kingdom, Teenage athletes--Evaluation, Women athletes--Evaluation

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No Place for a Woman: British Sport Is Still Overwhelmingly...tennis, golf--British women rarely occupy a place...you look at results in British sport, weve got great...paranoia, it thrives. Women are far happier to walk...1950 than 2007--a woman whose worth derives...
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A Stake in the Games: British Women Will Be the Winners If Our Female Olympians Succeed

Magazine article by Emma John; New Statesman, Vol. 137, August 11, 2008

Subjects:

Olympics, United Kingdom--Demographic aspects, United Kingdom--Social aspects, Women athletes--Achievements and awards, Women athletes--Appreciation, Women athletes--Competitions

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A Stake in the Games: British Women Will Be the Winners If...will be the first in which the British women outperform their male counterparts...her credit, she is just the woman for the gruelling fight ahead...motive for reaching out to women. Lobbying bodies like the...
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A Matter of Opinion: There's No Shortage of Women Writing in the British Press, but Their Picture Bylines Say It All

Magazine article by Barbara Gunnell; New Statesman, Vol. 134, April 4, 2005

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Journalism--Social aspects, Sex role, Sex roles, Women in journalism, Women journalists

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...Opinion: Theres No Shortage of Women Writing in the British Press, but Their Picture Bylines...particularly life as experienced by women. But how has it come about...picture of a rosy-cheeked woman with white hair and a couple...political columnist, say, then women really will have made progress...

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Newspaper Articles on: british women

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It Is High Time British Muslim Women Stopped Wearing Veils; THE GREAT VEIL DEBATE SAYS SAIRA KHAN Businesswoman and Former Apprentice Contestant

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 14, 2006

Subjects:

British Muslims, Islam, Muslims in United Kingdom, Working women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...have been used to disempower women. In addition to being a political...one of the professions that women who insist on wearing veils...cant understand why any other woman would want to. I believe every...religious viewpoints and it stops women integrating. Im not saying...too extreme. Its high time British Muslim women stopped wearing...
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Terror of the British Women Trapped in Deadly Taliban Raid

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 20, 2011

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British Council

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Terror of the British Women Trapped in Deadly Taliban Raid. Byline...Williams Chief Reporter TWO terrified British women hid for more than five hours...bombers stormed the headquarters of the British Council in Kabul. At least ten people...
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BRIDGET JONES GOES TO THE POLE; She Was a Scatty, Chardonnay Swigging Thirtysomething Career Girl Desperate to Escape a Life of Disastrous Affairs, Humiliation at Work and Too Many Fags. Then One Day She Read That No British Woman Had Ever Walked to the South Pole. the Rest, as This Hilarious and Inspiring Series Describes, Is History

Newspaper article by Catharine Hartley; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 23, 2002

Subjects:

British Broadcasting Corp., Broadcasting, Broadcasting industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...please sponsor the first British woman to walk to the South...being the expeditions lone woman, I would be sharing with Fiona the glory of being the first British women to walk to the Pole - assuming...to the drab greyness of the British winter I had left behind...
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THE WOMEN BEHIND THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY; between Them, BBC Films' Christine Langan, C4's Tessa Ross and UK Film Council's Tanya Seghatchian Can Lay Some Claim to 33 of the Nominations for Sunday's Baftas. Does This Mean That Talent Spotting and Nurturing Is Women's Work, Nick Curtis Asks Them

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 19, 2010

Subjects:

British Broadcasting Corp. BBCi Films, Film and video production companies, Ross, Tessa, Video production companies

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

THE WOMEN BEHIND THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY; between...Curtis MOST of the superb British movies vying for one...franchise. Because the more British filmmakers who can play...investors." And what do women in the industry need...this will be the year a woman wins the Best Film Oscar...
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Support on Hand; AHEAD of Remembrance Sunday, HANNAH DAVIES Reports on the Work the Royal British Legion Does Helping the Region's Ex-Servicemen and Women

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 9, 2010

Subjects:

The Royal British Legion

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Reports on the Work the Royal British Legion Does Helping the Regions Ex-Servicemen and Women. Byline: HANNAH DAVIES...in touch with the Royal British Legion and the next time...they could go. The Royal British Legion have helped her in...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: british women

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Bounty , British Naval Vessel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BOUNTY , British naval vessel British naval vessel, a 220-ton (200-metric-ton), 85-ft (26...executed. Other mutineers under Christian, along with Tahitian women, landed at Pitcairn Island , burned the Bounty, and founded a...
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Woman Suffrage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...advocates; his Subjection of Women (1869) is one of the...arguments for the right of women to vote. Among the leaders in the early British suffrage movement were...presented a bill for woman suffrage in the House...Man granted the vote to women who owned property. Local British societies united in 1897...
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Kanpur

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Kanpur was a village until its cession to the British in 1801 by the Nawab of Oudh. During the Indian...claim had been rejected, slaughtered the entire British garrison, including women and children...
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Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Elizabeth also worked for woman suffrage. With difficulty...later a small hospital, for women and children, the first in England to be staffed by women physicians; it was known after...as a result of her efforts, British examining boards opened their examinations to women. See biography by J. Manton...
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O'shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1844 81, English poet and naturalist. He was a member of the zoological department of the British Museum. He wrote four volumes of poetry Epic of Women (1870), Lays of France (1872), Music and Moonlight (1874), and Songs of a Worker...

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