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Women's studies

Here you will find all the resources identified by our tutors as useful for the study of this subject, arranged in ascending alphabetical order. Browse the tiles and descriptions to discover if there are any resources of interest to you, or click on any of the keywords to see resources sorted by more in-depth topics.

Women's studies (L321): The study of the role and influence of women in society.

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Link Autobiography of Mary countess of Warwick. Ed., with introduction and notes (1848)

Full text of the 1848 edition of the autobiography of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick - from Archive.org

 biography, Autobiography view
Document Businesswomen in the 18th & 19th centuries

Week 9. Women in business

 womens history, 18th century, 19th century, work view
Document Clerical work and the 'New Woman'

Week 10. Clerical work and the 'New Woman'

 womens history, 19th century, 20th century view
Document Clerical work and the 'New Woman'

Week 10. Clerical work and the 'New Woman'

 womens history, 19th century, 20th century view
Document Domestic service

Week 7. Women in domestic service

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Document Industrialisation - knitting, pottery and metalwork industries

Week 6. Women in the Inustrial Revolution - other industries

 womens history, work, Economic history view
Document Industrialisation - textiles

Week 5, Women in the Industrial Revolution - textiles

 womens history, work, Industrial Revolution view
Link Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick - A Good Woman and a Great Lady

An article from History Today, by Lady Antonia Fraser

 biography, Autobiography view
Document Mirroring Mothers: Self-Identity and the Maternal Threat in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith, Olivia Bam

An analysis of the character Hetty Sorrel in George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith (1868) as reflections of the...

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Document Representing Equality: A Comparative Study Of How The New Hospital For Women And Punch Cartoon, ‘Our Pretty Doctor’ Depicted The Acceptance Of The First Female Doctors In Britain, Alexander Goldsmith

‘Our Pretty Doctor’ appeared in Punch on August 1870, following Elizabeth Garrett Anderson’s appointment as a visiting physician to the East...

Social history, History of Medicine, History, cartoons view
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