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A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
Inventing the Working Parent
Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain
ISBN: 9780262546102
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century—and how the concepts of “family-friendly” work culture and “work–life balance” came to be.
Dressing Up
The Women Who Influenced French Fashion
ISBN: 9780262045841
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
How wealthy American women—as consumers and as influencers—helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated.
The Broadcast 41
Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
ISBN: 9781912685424
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.”
A Brief History of Feminism
ISBN: 9780262037112
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 25, 2017
An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.
A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
Inventing the Working Parent
Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain
ISBN: 9780262546102
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century—and how the concepts of “family-friendly” work culture and “work–life balance” came to be.
Dressing Up
The Women Who Influenced French Fashion
ISBN: 9780262045841
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
How wealthy American women—as consumers and as influencers—helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated.
The Broadcast 41
Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
ISBN: 9781912685424
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.”
A Brief History of Feminism
ISBN: 9780262037112
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 25, 2017
An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.