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In the Family WayIllegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties by Jane Robinson
Category: History
Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. In the Family Way tells secrets kept for entire lifetimes: long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home. Anonymous childhoods are recalled, sp ...Show more
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson
Category: Non-Fiction
It is a myth that the First World War liberated women. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It should have marked a social revolution, opening the doors of the traditional professions to women who had worked so hard durin ...Show more
Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health - Justice, Embodiment and Agency by Damien W. Riggs (Editor); Jane M. Ussher (Editor); Kerry H. Robinson (Editor); Shoshana Rosenberg (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Women and Psychology Ser.
Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social contexts, and their agency in advocating for change. Chapters cover a breadth of topics such as intimacy, s ...Show more
Unsuitable For Ladies [Reissue] by Robinson Jane
Category: Fiction
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been ...Show more
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