Explores the importance of women workers in the nineteenth-century textile industry through a case study of the English firm, Samuel Courtaulds, looking at workers at home, at the factory, and in society, and discussing workers' resistance.
Presents a comprehensive study of firsthand accounts of the Civil Rights movement by women who experienced it including Rosa Parks, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford who became the first African-American student at Central High School in Little Rock, and many more.
Profiles the women who served in various capacities during the Vietnam War including medical personnel and welfare workers, war correspondents, and North Vietnamese combatants.
Describes the lives of several classes of French women during the Revolution, including society women, villagers, peasants, workers in Paris, nuns and churchgoers, and soldiers, and includes a chronology and annotated further reading list.
Examines the contributions women have made in shaping the American frontier from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and studies the significant roles they played in the early political and social development of the nation.
Presents a history of Renaissance women between the fourteenth and seventeenth century in Europe and examines their individual roles as wives, mothers, and caregivers as well as in religious life, as scholars and scientists, writers and artists, and as queens.
