Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and serv

Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of th

Lope de Vega's Women and Servants (Mujeres y criados, c. 1613-14), newly translated by Barbara Fuchs, depicts a sophisticated urban culture of self-fashioning a

Birchwood Heights is a secretive lesbian community based on one shocking assumption: that some women want to own and some women want to be owned. Freed from the

Reveals a hidden history of women's suffrage from the perspectives of working-class women employed as domestic servants.