Nelly Roussel (1878–1922)—the first feminist spokeswoman for birth control in Europe—challenged both the men of early twentieth-century France, who sought

Institutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the

Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. But what does it mean in different national histories and political regimes,

This volume of essays provides the first major comparative study of the role played by women’s movements and individual female activists in enabling or thwart

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of